This book is an attempt to build a comprehensive monograph of three important medicinal plants, Aerva lanata which is referred to as Bhadra, Hedyotis corymbosa as Parpatakah, and Leptadenia reticulata as Jivanti. Ayurvedic texts attribute high medicinal values to these plants and regard them in high esteem. Important parameters such as proximate analysis, phytochemistry, micromorphology, anatomy, powder study, HPTLC fingerprint analysis, isolation and characterization of phytochemicals have been included in this book. Another inportant factor studied is identification of key pharmacognostic...