Traditional medicine is the sum total knowledge, skills and practices based on theories, beliefs and experiences. While for many traditional medicinal products scientific documents on safety, efficacy and quality are scare in spite of these products have been "field-tested" for centuries by thousands of people. Though, empirical knowledge has been accumulated in the communities and passed on by generation of healers Traditional system of medicine has its own taken care of the health for the last few thousands of years. Later, this empirical knowledge also contributed for the development of...

The Study primarily deals with the estimation of cost and recovery behavior of professional education in Punjab. From the study, it becomes clear that the practices related to fees and funds, recovery of costs, salary of the staff demand serious attention of the state. The level of fees and funds are very high in different trades/courses in the professional higher education. The private institutes providing professional higher education have been found to be generating huge economic surpluses, i.e. receipts were found to be much more than that of costs. The state has to decide about the...

Anthocyanins are a large group of the bioflavonoids family from the class phenolics. Phenolics are the coloured compounds present in nature in flowers, fruits, leaves etc. These colours play very crucial role in biodiversity. Flowers and fruits, are sole source of rich antioxidant. These antioxidant have potentials to cure various diseases like cancer. Therefore in present book authors tried to compile the various anthocyanins from different plants that possess anthocyanins and their role in curing various human ailments. Its high time to target such molecules and isolate these anthocaynins...