The present review describes the morphological, phytochemical and pharmacologyaspects of Cinnamomum tamala (Lauraceae). The plant grows wild in the tropical and subtropical Himalayas, the Khasi hills, the nilgiri hills and at the foot of the Sikkim Himalayas. There are many plantation of this species. Used as carminative, used in colic and diarrhoea. Bark is aromatic, stimulant, antigonorrhoeic...

Sikkim is a very small hilly state in the Eastern Himalayas with a total geographical area of 7096. sq. kms. Sikkim, covering just 0.2% of the geographical area of the country, harbours more 26% flowering plants has tremendous biodiversity in the Eastern Himalayas. The present paper enumerates status and traditional uses of 79 plant species by the ethnic and rural people of eastern Sikkim Himal...

Mycomya Rondani specimens from the Himalayas, mostly Nepal and Myanmar, are revised. Altogether four species of the subgenus Cesamya Koçak & Kemal and eleven species of the subgenus Mycomyopsis Väisänen are recorded from the Himalayas and the Indian subcontinent. The paper includes a key to the Himalayan species of Mycomya of the two subgenera. The following fourteen new species are described: ...

Himachal Pradesh state of India is situated in the outer Himalayan ranges. During the rainy season, several cases of acute febrile illness of unknown origin occurred. Orientia tsutsugamushi was identified as the causative agent by microimmunofluorescence and PCR. Two new genotypes of O. tsutsugamushi were identified in the region.

Myconya Rondani specimens from the Himalayas, mostly Nepal and Myanmar, are revised. Pavoniya subg. n. is described. Altogether nine species from the subgenera Calomycoinya, Cymnoniya, Neoinycoinya and Pavomya subg. n. are recorded from the Himalayas and Indian subcontinent. The paper includes a key to the subgenera of Myconiya and the Himalayan species of Mycomya of the four subgenera. The fol...

Based on fieldwork by the author conducted in Tibetan cultural areas of the Indian Himalayas, this paper explores Himalayan understandings of what defines a fairy tale, in contrast to the Western understanding. In parts of the Himalayas, a distinction is made between “lakshung” (fairy tales) and “kyakshung”, which are shorter stories, the kind one might tell over tea. In light of the proposals ...

The continuous soil gas radon and daily monitoring of radon concentration in water is carried out at Amritsar (Punjab, India), a well known seismic zone to study the correlation of radon anomalies in relation to seismic activities in the study area. In this study, radon monitoring in soil was carried out by using barasol probe (BMC2) manufactured by Algade France whereas the radon content in wa...

Intraspecific genetic variation in natural populations governs their potential to overcome challenging ecological and environmental conditions. In addition, knowledge of this variation is critical for the conservation and management of endangered plant taxa. Found in the Himalayas, Podophyllum hexandrum is an endangered high-elevation plant species that has great medicinal importance. Here we r...

BACKGROUND Myricaria consists of about twelve-thirteen species and occurs in Eurasian North Temperate zone, most species in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) and adjacent areas. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Twelve species of Myricaria plus two other genera Tamarix and Reaumuria in Tamaricaceae, were sampled, and four markers, ITS, rps16, psbB-psbH, and trnL-trnF were sequenced. The relaxed Ba...