Wild Cucurbits: Source of Traditional Therapeutic Systems & Medicines

Adequate food and medicines for healthy life are the major challenges for the third world countries like India. These two important problems need to be addressed properly. Specific and proper scientific studies might bring solutions to them. This might be possible by searching for alternate available sources of food and medicines from bio-wealth. This book provides a base line for the researchers who are working on above important challenges.This book provide information on the available Wild Cucurbits of a protected area, Similipal Biosphere Reserve and their importance among the local communities and the experiment bring attention towards the research in the field of Nutraceutical.