The Medicinal Plant Industry

ISBN-13: 9781138407794 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

R. O. B. Wijesekera

Opis

Presenting a multidisciplinary view of the medicinal plant industry, this book covers its growth. It discusses the need for developing countries to acquire technologies and techniques for programmed cultivation of medicinal plants. It highlights cultivation and climatic variations, biological assessment and formulation, and phytochemical research.

Spis treści

1: Plant-Derived Medicines and Their Role in Global Health; 2: Methodology of Economic Mapping of Medicinal Plants in the Spontaneous Flora; 3: Biological Preconditions for Cultivation and Processing of Medicinal Plants; 4: Agrotechnology of Medicinal Plants; 5: Climatic and Geographical Aspects of Medicinal Plant Constituents; 6: Methods for Biological Assessment of Plant Medicines; 7: Technologies for the Processing of Medicinal Plants; 8: Quality Control and Instrumental Analysis of Plant Extracts; 9: Formulation of Plant Extracts into Dosage Forms; 10: Some Current Trends in Medicinal Plant Research; 11: Traditional Remedies and Modern Assessment: The Case of Ginseng; 12: Utilization of Medicinal Plants: Recent Developments from the Chinese Experience; 13: Recent Developments from Indian Medicinal Plants; 14: Recent Research on Medicinal Plants in the African Region; 15: Screening and Processing of Plant Materials for Potential Pharmaceutical Needs: Experience and Applications in Three Continents; 16: Information on Medicinal Plants

O autorze

R. O. B. Wijesekera