| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 500 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Trends and challenges in phytomedicine / Hildebert Wagner -- History of application of medicinal plants in China / Chang-Xiao Liu -- Ethnopharmacology of traditional Chinese drugs from medicinal plants / Chang-Xiao Liu -- Research and development of new drugs originating from Chinese medicinal plants / Chang-Xiao Liu, Zohara Yaniv -- African medicinal plants / Ruth Kutalek, Armin Prinz -- Dilemmas and solutions : Native American plant knowledge / Daniel E. Moerman -- Ethnobotany and ethnomedicine of the Amazonian Indians / Ghillean T. Prance -- Healers and physicians in ancient and medieval Mediterranean cultures / Alain Touwaide -- Remedies from the bush : traditional medicine among the Australian Aborigines / Emanuela Appetiti -- Production and breeding of medicinal plants / Éva Németh -- Biological screening of medicinal plants / Ming-Wei Wang -- Biotechnology in medicinal crops improvement / Efraim Lewinsohn, Ya'akov Tadmor -- In vitro cultivation of medicinal plants / Christoph Wawrosch -- Medicinal plants in the prevention and therapy of cancer / David Mantle, Richard M. Wilkins -- Phytochemicals and prevention of coronary heart disease / D. Francesco Visioli, Simona Grande, Claudio Galli -- A modern look at folkloric use of anti-infective agents / Lester A. Mitscher -- Use of medicinal plants in CNS disorders / Peter John Houghton -- Herbal medicine in endocrinology and metabolic disease / Graham Pinn -- Bioactive saponins from plants : recent developments / Marie-Aleth Lacaille-Dubois -- Natural products and herbal medicines in the gastrointestinal tract / Zohar Kerem -- Challenges and threats to interdisciplinary medicinal plant research / Michael Heinrich |
| Summary |
Stay up-to-date with this important contribution to rationalized botanical medicineThe Handbook of Medicinal Plants explores state-of-the-art developments in the field of botanical medicine. Nineteen experts from around the world provide vital information on natural products and herbal medicinesfrom their earliest relevance in various cultures to todays cutting-edge biotechnologies. Educated readers, practitioners, and academics of natural sciences will benefit from the texts rich list of references as well as numerous tables, figures, and color photographs and illustrations. The Handbook of Medicinal Plants is divided into three main sections. The first section covers the use of herbal medicines throughout history in China, Australia, the Americas, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean, emphasizing the need for future medicinal plant research. The second section discusses the latest technologies in production and breeding, crop improvement, farming, and plant research. The third section focuses on groundbreaking advances in the medicinal application of therapeutic herbs. In the Handbook of Medicinal Plants, you will gain new knowledge about: recent research and development in Chinese herbal medicine modern methods of evaluating the efficacy of medicinal plants by screening the newest developments of in vitro cultivation prevention and therapy of cancer and other diseases using medicinal plants the challenges and threats to medicinal plant research today trends in phytomedicine in the new millenniumThe Handbook of Medicinal Plants demonstrates the global relevance of sharing local knowledge about phytomedicines, and highlights the need to make information on plants available on a worldwide basis. With this book, you can help meet the challenge to find scientifically rationalized medicines that ar |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Materia medica, Vegetable -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Medicinal plants -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Traditional medicine -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Ethnopharmacology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
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SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- General.
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Ethnopharmacology
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Materia medica, Vegetable
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Medicinal plants
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Traditional medicine
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yaniv, Zohara.
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Bachrach, Uriel.
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| ISBN |
9780367807481 |
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0367807483 |
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9781482278026 |
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1482278022 |
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