Medicinal plants have always been the principle source of medicine in India since ancient past and presently they are becoming the popular among the users because of less or no side effects. Besides, they also play an important role in the lives of tribal and rural people, particularly in remote part of developing countries. The present book deals with the medicinal plants with special reference to their phytochemical and medicinal uses.

India has a rich diversity of medicinal and aromatic plants; more than 8000 species of wild plants are known to be used in India treatment of various health disorders. Madhya Pradesh is rich in medicinal and aromatic plant, provides a significant source of income for a large number of people derive employment and from the collection, processing and trade of these plants. Importance of medicinal plants is widely accepted, there is a serious lack of comprehensive information on the economically important and threatened species of Madhya Pradesh, India. There are more than 100 plant species has been reported and preparing the Database of medicinal plants observed/collected from various parts of Madhya Pradesh state of India. In the present book botanical name, family, local/common name, habit, cultivated/wild, distribution, flowering & fruiting, economic part, medicinal part/uses, active ingredients and IUCN status for every species along with its photograph has been mentioned.

Contraceptives are preparations used for reversible suppression of fertility. Because of our alarming population trends, anti fertility drugs are the need of the day. In developing countries particularly the mortality rate has declined and birth rate has increased due to urbanization. In earlier part of present century method of contraception used (condoms, diaphragms, spermicidal creams, foam tablets etc) were intimately related to several inter course, therefore, despised by most couples. These also having higher failure rate announced the successful use of an oral progestin for contraception, separating fertility control from coitus.Due to major side effects, the herbal oral contraceptives are the need of hour. The word herbal is the symbol of safety in contrast to the synthetic ones, which have adverse effect on human health. Modern allopathic medicines have provided several preventive and corrective methods of contraception as discuss above, but none of which is very safe and without any serious side effects.