Kuntal Das MPharm PhD is currently Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, St. John's Pharmacy College, Bangalore. He is coguiding many post- graduate students in other departments like pharmacognosy and pharmacology. He was a lecturer and has worked in industry as a quality control officer. The areas of his interest in research include standardization of cultivation parameters of medicinal and aromatic plants, application of nanofertilizers in the cultivation of medicinal plants, tissue culture of endangered plants, herbal formulations and their clinical trials. He has published many research papers and review papers in reputed peer reviewed national and international journals. He has written chapters in Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants: Vol 19 (Studium Press, USA) and has authored a book Medicinal Plants: Their Usage in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
<p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;">The aim of this book is to provide a solid platform for researchers, academicians, students, physicians, traditional medical practitioners, farmers, manufacturers and exporters of herbal products and marketing consultants from all over the world. Entire information has been compiled and presented in this book in a simple manner to serve the basic concept to the readers.This text covers the topics in five chapters, viz.</p><ol style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 35px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Introduction herbal plants and cosmetics in Indian market;</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">External parts of human body and their different complications;</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Antioxidants, antiseptics and preservotives:</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Introduction of topical cosmetics and their evaluations; and</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Individual herbs with their details in cosmetics formulations.</li></ol>
