Special Issue September 2019 ISSN Print: 2518-4261 PROCEEDINGS ISSN Online: 2518-427X OF THE PAKISTAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: PROCEEDINGS Vol. 56(3), September 2019 B. Life and Environmental Sciences OF THE PAKISTAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: C O N T E N T S B. Life and Environmental Sciences Volume 56, No. 3, September 2019 (Special Issue) Page Review Articles Therapeutic and Adverse Effects of Commonly used Medicinal Plants: 01 Standardization and Quality Assurance Rizwan Faisal, Laiyla Shinwari, Iram Aziz, and Ali Talha Khalil DNA Barcoding of Herbal Medicinal Products: A Challenging Task 11 Nadia Batool Zahra Traditional Chinese Medicine going Global: Opportunities for Belt and Road Countries 17 Muhammad Ovais, Ali T. Khalil, Sohail A. Jan, Muhammad Ayaz, Ikram Ullah, Waseem Shinwari, and Zabta K. Shinwari Current Trends in the Popular Sector Traditional Medicine in Sri Lanka 27 Rathnayake M. Abeyrathne Bioinspired Synthesis of Nanoparticles and their Biomedical Potential: the Pakistan Experience 37 Sana Ullah, Muhammad Ali, Misbahud Din, Shakeeb Afridi, Samina Bashir, and Zabta Khan Shinwari Elicitation strategies of in vitro cultures for the sustainable use of medicinal plants 49 Tariq Khan, Bilal Haider Abbasi, and Mubarak Ali Khan Research Articles Comparative Analgesic Activity of Selected Medicinal Plants from Pakistan 57 Huma Shareef, Sadaf Naeem, and Erum Zaheer Antidiabetic and Antimicrobial Properties of Some High Altitude Medicinal Plants of Nepal 69 Rachana Regmi, Mitesh Shrestha, Megha Raj Banjara, and Deegendra Khadka Anti-oxidant and Aldose Reductase Inhibitory Activity of Piper betle Extracts 79 Sri Fatmawati, and Kuniyoshi Shimizu www.paspk.org Website: Extraction, Phytochemical Screening and Wound Healing Activity of Herbal Formulation of Saussurea lappa 83 Aitazaz Ahsan, G. A. 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Shinwari Current Trends in the Popular Sector Traditional Medicine in Sri Lanka 27 Rathnayake M. Abeyrathne Bioinspired Synthesis of Nanoparticles and their Biomedical Potential: the Pakistan Experience 37 Sana Ullah, Muhammad Ali, Misbahud Din, Shakeeb Afridi, Samina Bashir, and Zabta Khan Shinwari Elicitation strategies of in vitro cultures for the sustainable use of medicinal plants 49 Tariq Khan, Bilal Haider Abbasi, and Mubarak Ali Khan Research Articles Comparative Analgesic Activity of Selected Medicinal Plants from Pakistan 57 Huma Shareef, Sadaf Naeem, and Erum Zaheer Antidiabetic and Antimicrobial Properties of Some High Altitude Medicinal Plants of Nepal 69 Rachana Regmi, Mitesh Shrestha, Megha Raj Banjara, and Deegendra Khadka Anti-oxidant and Aldose Reductase Inhibitory Activity of Piper betle Extracts 79 Sri Fatmawati, and Kuniyoshi Shimizu Extraction, Phytochemical Screening and Wound Healing Activity of Herbal Formulation of Saussurea lappa 83 Aitazaz Ahsan, G. A. Miana, Humaira Naureen, Masood Ur Rehman, Kamil Anum, and Imran Malik Floristic Diversity, Ethnobotany and Traditional Recipes of Maruk Nallah, Haramosh Valley, District Gilgit 97 Qamar Abbas, Adeeb Hussain, Sher Wali Khan, Alamdar Hussain, Shehla Shinwari, Azhar Hussain, Asad Ullah, Muhammad Zafar, and Karamat Ali Antimicrobial Effect of Guava Leaf Extract in Correlation with Biofilm Formation and Metallo-β-Lactamase 113 Production in Multidrug Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Rabina Thapa, Bijendra Raj Raghubanshi, and Anjana Singh Taxonomical and Phytochemical Characterization of Two Highly Traded Medicinal Species of Genus Berberis 121 Sidra Nisar Ahmed, Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Zafar, Sofia Rashid, Ghulam Yaseen, Shomaila Ashfaq and Shazia sultana Strengthening the Role of Complementary Medicine to Address Health Workforce Shortages 127 in Primary Health Care in Asia (Workshop Recommendations) Tasleem Akhtar, and Zabta K. 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