This treatise-the first comprehensive manual on the subject serves as a handy reference guide, offering very useful information on 439 species of Indian bio-fences from disparate sources. As many as 6 histograms, 3 tables and 8 useful appendices enhance the value of the compilation significantly. It is our fervent hope that this manual will be of great practical utility to students, researchers, teachers and scientists in traditional and agricultural universities, forestry, economic botany, ethnobotany, landscape ecology, plant genetic research institutions, policy planners, etc. Written in an easy-to- understand style, it will also be useful to interested laymen. No institutional library should be without it. Audience: Students and Scholars of Ethnobotany, Economic Botany, Pharmacists, Medical Practitioners, Chemists, Biotechnologists, Plant Genetic Research Institutions, Policy Planners etc.

This comprehensive treatise is first of its kind providing valuable, interdisciplinary information on 547 healing herbs for treatment of arthritis and rheumatism to form a highly structured reference guide to the world at large; covering updated details of nomenclature, English, Hindi and Sanskrit names, distribution, part(s) used, reproductive cycle, folk use(s), active constituents and the original source of information. Inclusion of 28 photographs, 8 figures and 4 tables enhance the value of the compilation significantly. It is hoped, this invaluable treatise with its comprehensive coverage of the subject would help researchers and the medicinal plant industry in general for development of newer plant based drugs for alleviating human suffering.