The history and the future of medicinal plants

ISBN-13: 9783330017986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 92 str.

Jihan Hussein; Yasmin Abdel Latif; Dalia Medhat

Opis

The term of medicinal plants include a various types of plants used in herbalism and some of these plants have a medicinal activities. These medicinal plants consider as a rich resource of ingredients which can be used in drug development and synthesis. Besides that these plants play a critical role in the development of human cultures around the whole world. Moreover, some plants consider as important source of nutrition and as a result of that these plants recommended for their therapeutic values. These plants include ginger, green tea, black tea, walnuts and some others plants.There has been a great deal of interest in the role of complementary and alternative medicines for the treatment of various acute and chronic diseases.Traditional use of medicine is recognized as a way to learn about potential future medicines. Researchers have identified number of compounds used in mainstream medicine which were derived from "ethnomedical" plant sources . Plants are used medicinally in different countries and are a source of many potent and powerful drugs.

O autorze

Prof. Jihan Seid Hussein ,Professor of Medical Biochemistry,National Research Centre,Egypt. Member of several international scientific societies,awarded a scientific encouragement prize in Biotechnology of the National Research Centre.Holds a Scientific Excellence Award for the research outputs of the National Research Center for the years 2009-14.