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Title Therapeutic medicinal plants : from lab to the market / editors: Marta Cristina Teixeira Duarte, Mahendra Rai
Published Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (400 pages) : color illustrations
Series Biosciencenetbase
Contents Front Cover -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Mexican Traditional Medicine: Traditions of Yesterday and Phytomedicines of Tomorrow -- Chapter 2: Centella asiatica: From Ethnomedicinal Uses to the Possibility of New Drug Discovery -- Chapter 3: Melissa officinalis L.: Overview of Pharmacological and Clinical Evidence of the Plant and Marketed Products in Spain -- Chapter 4: Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus): From Kitchen to Clinic -- Chapter 5: Clinical Studies of Traditional Therapeutic Herbs before Marketing: Current Status and Future Challenges
Chapter 6: Opportunities and Limitations in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants' Markets and Research in Developing Countries: Lebanon Chapter 7: Mutagenicity, Genotoxicity and Cytotoxicity Assays of Medicinal Plants: First Step for Drug Development -- Chapter 8: The Medicinal Species Euphorbia hirta and E. hyssopifolia (Euphorbiaceae): Uses, Phytochemical Data and Genetic Diversity -- Chapter 9: Traditional Medicine in Cuba: Experience in Developing Products based on Medicinal Plants -- Chapter 10: Challenges for the Development of A Natural Antimicrobial from Essential Oils
Chapter 11: How to Improve Some Properties and Qualities of Plant Extracts and their Derivatives using Pharmacotechnical TechnologChapter 12: Cultivation and Utilization of Medicinal Plants for Development of Products -- Chapter 13: Essential Oils and their Products as Antimicrobial Agents: Progress and Prospects -- Chapter 14: Some Latin American Plants Promising for the Cosmetic, Perfume and Flavor Industries -- Chapter 15: The Therapeutic Potential of Products based on Polyphenols from Wine Grapes in Cardiovascular Diseases
Chapter 16: From Plant Collection to Lab and Market-Traditional Medicine in Northern PeruChapter 17: An Update on Plant Originated Remedies for the Medication of Hyperlipidemia -- Chapter 18: Pharmacological Aspects of Tribulus terrestris Linn. (Goksura): Progress and Prospects -- Chapter 19: Vitex negundo: Bioactivities and -- Back Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 2, 2015)
Subject Materia medica, Vegetable.
Medicinal plants.
Botanical drug industry.
Medicine, Botanic.
Botany, Medical.
Plants, Medicinal
Phytotherapy
Medicine, Traditional
Drug Discovery
MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
Medicine, Botanic
Botany, Medical
Botanical drug industry
Materia medica, Vegetable
Medicinal plants
Form Electronic book
Author Duarte, Marta Cristina Teixeira, editor.
Rai, Mahendra, editor.
ISBN 9781482254044
1482254042