Medicinal Plants: Bioprospecting and Pharmacognosy

ISBN-13: 9781774638453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 572 str.

Amit Baran Sharangi; K. V. Peter

Opis

Looks at the bioprospecting of medicinal plants for potential health uses and at the pharmacognosy of a selection of medicinal and aromatic plants, such as to treat inflammation, anti-hyperglycemia, and obesity and as immunity boosters. It discusses the conservation, maintenance, and sustainable utilization of medicinal plants.

Spis treści

1. Medicinal Plants: Perspectives and Retrospectives  2. Traditional Medicine in Health Care and Disease Management  3. Herbal Drug Discovery Against Inflammation: Traditional Wisdom to Modern Therapeutics  4. Foeniculum vulgare Mill: Flavoring, Pharmacological, Phytochemical, and Folklore Aspects  5. Ocimum basilicum: A Model Medicinal Industrial Crop Enriched with an Array of Bioactive Chemicals  6. Syzygium aromaticum, Curcuma longa, and Lavandula: Volatile Components and Antioxidant Activities  7. Anti-Hyperglycemic Property of Medicinal Plants  8. Improved Production and Postharvest Technologies in Ashwagandha (Indian Ginseng)  9. Endangered Medicinal Plants of Temperate Regions: Conservation and Maintenance  10. Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Threatened Medicinal Plants of North East India  11. Essential Oils: Clinical Perspectives and Uses  12. Asparagus sp.: Phytochemicals and Marketed Herbal Formulations  13. Phytosomes: Preparations, Characterization, and Future Uses  14. Synthetic Seeds vis-a-vis Cryopreservation: An Efficient Technique for Long-Term Preservation of Endangered Medicinal Plants  15. Use of Microcomputed Tomography and Image Processing Tools in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants  16. Postharvest Care of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: A Reservoir of Many Health Benefiting Constituents  17. Prosopis cineraria (Khejri): Ethanopharmacology and Phytochemistry  18. Mitigation of Obesity: A Phytotherapeutic Approach  19. Ethnomedicinal Plants of North Eastern Himalayan Region of India to Combat Hypertension  20. Medicinal Plants: Consumption, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Trade in India  21. Potential of Spices as Medicines and Immunity Boosters  22. Medicinal Plants: Future Thrust Areas and Research Directions