This information provides immense potential for studying their activity for arthritis both in pre-clinical and clinical stages, which lead to the preparation of useful pharmaceutical products.

This report starts with a brief account of different types of IPRs, including a brief overview of the WTO TRIPs agreement. It focuses on biodiversity and relationship with the IPR regime. The benefits of biodiversity and the Convention on Biological Diversity have been explained. The relationship between the CBD and the WTO TRIPs agreement has been analysed, including comparing the relevant provisions of these two regulatory regimes.

This study is about the Documentation of tribal knowledge on wild edible plants of Meghalaya which brought to light a number of wild plant species used as edibles. The paper enumerates and discusses various aspects of the wild plants used by Khasi, Jaintia and Garo tribes of Meghalaya.

The paper deals with use of certain indigenous medicinal plants among the local people of the Sikkim Himalaya (Eastern Himalaya),The study highlighted the use of 28 plant species belonging to 26 genera and 19 families as herbal medicine in the treatment of various ailments.

The objective of this work was to compile and analyze such information obtained from traditional literature in order to document the impact of these beverages on human health.

During the course of investigation it has been observed that a particular plant is sometimes prescribed for different ailments in different localities and some Vaidyas (Ayurvedic physicians) apply a mixture of plants for remedy of diseases.

An ethnobotanical project was carried out in Swat valley in order to explore medicinal plants present in the local markets and their medicinal folk uses in the area.

The book draws together essays by prominent scholars in anthropology and other fields examining the varied face of indigenous politics in Bolivia, Botswana, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, and the United States, amongst others. The book challenges accepted notions of indigeneity as it examines the transnational dynamics of contemporary native culture and politics around the world.

An attempt has been made to study ethnomedicine used by Mishings for the treatment of diseases like allergy, backache, cough, constipation, cut injury, diabetes, dysentery, eczema, epilepsy, indigestion, lice control, piles and ringworm infection.

The purpose of the study was to document the traditional wild food plants used by tribal people in Andhra Pradesh. A total of 156 species were documented as wild plants used for food purposes.