(BQ) Part 1 book “Healing traditions of the northwestern Himalayas” has contents: The bountiful Himalayas, health and folk medicine, ethnic food as medicament, culinary traditions of the North-Western Himalayas, concept of healing in epic sagas. | SPRINGER BRIEFS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Pankaj Gupta Vijay Kumar Sharma Sushma Sharma Healing Traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science For further volumes: Pankaj Gupta Vijay Kumar Sharma Sushma Sharma • Healing Traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas 123 Pankaj Gupta Vijay Kumar Sharma Institute of Integrated Himalayan Studies Himachal Pradesh University Shimla Himachal Pradesh India Sushma Sharma Department of Biosciences Himachal Pradesh University Shimla Himachal Pradesh India ISSN 2191-5547 ISSN 2191-5555 (electronic) ISBN 978-81-322-1924-8 ISBN 978-81-322-1925-5 (eBook) DOI Springer New Delhi Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014940152 The Author(s) 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, .