Date:03/06/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/06/03/stories/2007060316180300.htm

New Delhi

Book released

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam has emphasised the need for identifying and popularising evidence-based herbal drugs that have already passed through various phases of clinical trials in the country.

Releasing C. P. Khare's ``Indian Medical Plants: An Illustrated Dictionary" here this past week, Dr. Kalam said the book was a good source of scientific information on Indian medicinal plants.