Kitchen Clinic

About the Book Home remedies and treatment of diseases by domestic plants have been prevalent since the time immemorial in India. The knowledge about the miraculous curing properties of plants is limited to certain people and is passed from one generation to another.

In the present book, the authors describe medicinal uses of 59 plants, which are used in daily life in the kitchen of Indian homes. Botanical names, vernacular names, identification, distribution and medicinal uses of each plant have been given. The book will serve as a guide of home remedies as practised by our grandmothers, in the middle of night or at odd hours when drug stores are closed. This book gives some alternate ways of controlling caroches, insomnia, minor burns, coughs, eczema, sore throats etc.

About the Authors Dr. Shiv Charan Sharma did his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Agra University and Ph.D. from Rohilkhand University. He published about 30 research papers at national and international journals of repute and presented 13 papers in different conferences and seminars. He is supervising research scholars for their Ph.D. degree in the fields of Eco Physiology and Taxonomy of medicinal plants and Ethnobotany. Presently he is Senior Reader in the Post-graduate Department of Botany, G.F. College, Shahjahanpur (U.P.).

Dr. Syed Aziz Ahmad did his M.Sc. from Gorakhpur University and M.Phil and Ph.D. from Aligarh Muslim University. He published 25 research papers and attended several conferences and seminars. He is supervising Ph.D. students in Organic Chemistry. His fields of specialisation are chemical analysis of medicinal plants and folk medicines. Presently he is Senior Reader in the Post-graduate Department of Chemistry, G.F. College, Shahjahanpur (U.P.).

Introduction Kitchen is a functional as well as a storage place in a house Kitchen raw materials are used to prepare food, domestic dishes, non-alcoholic beverages etc. Most of raw material are plants and their products, such as chilli, coriander, cumin, dill, fennel, turmeric, cloves, wheat flour, vegetables, onion etc. Majority of them have therapeutic value and provide fairly reliable remedies that are safe and less expensive. They can be used in odd hours of night and in emergency to cure coughs, cuts, sore throats, various types of pains, earache, toothache etc. as alternative medicines.

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