Sirumalai, locally known as small hill located in Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu and lying between 10 07'-10 18' N and 77 55'-78 12' E. Sirumalai is an isolated compact group of hills which extends between 6.5 km south of Dindigul town and 22.5 km north of Madurai city.Medicinal and Aromatic plants (MAPs) are produced and offered in a wide variety of products, from crude materials to processed and packaged products like pharmaceuticals, herbal remedies, tea, spirits, cosmetics, sweets, dietary supplements, varnishes and insecticides. There were 235 species of medicinal and aromatic plants...

Plants and other living organisms have great potential to treat human bodies. The current life style of human being is enriched with sweet bakes and carbohydrate bountiful food. The uncontrolled diet pattern of the global citizen causes severe side effects and the most predominant disease is diabetes and hence the organ affected is human kidney. But, unlikely the medicines used in the modern allopathic system are too harmful with severe side effects and the only alternative is to make use of the plant based remedies. In the present study, 124 plant species of medicinal plants having...

Medicinal plants have been curing various turmoils in animals and human from the time immemorial and are considered an intermittently associated and integral part of Indian Traditional Medicinal system. Modern day man-made drugs often show some detrimental effects, but the medicinal herbs are very safe and easy to access. All over the tropical countries, large scale destruction of the forest and wild due to population pressure and over exploitation of medicinal plants have major threat to important bioresources. The studies on propagation of RET plants have received much interest in recent...