Medicinal Plants

Bioprospecting and Pharmacognosy

Amit Baran Sharangi, K. V. Peter

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000565799
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Médecine
• Subtopic: Médecine alternative et complémentaire

With chapters written by scientists from respected institutes and universities around the world, this book looks at the bioprospecting of medicinal plants for potential health uses and at the pharmacognosy of a selection of medicinal and aromatic plants.

The book touches on a diverse selection of topics related to medicinal plants. Chapters look at the use of medicinal plants in healthcare and disease management, such as to treat inflammation, antihyperglycemia, and obesity and as immunity boosters. The authors also address the conservation, maintenance, and sustainable utilization of medicinal plants along with postharvest management issues. A chapter discusses the use of synthetic seeds in relation to cryopreservation, and a chapter is devoted to the use of microcomputed tomography and image processing tools in medicinal and aromatic plants. Other topics include consumption, supply chain, marketing, trade, and future directions of research.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Innovations in Horticultural Science
• Books in the Series
• About the Editors
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1. Medicinal Plants: Perspectives and Retrospectives
• 2. Traditional Medicine in Health Care and Disease Management
• 3. Herbal Drug Discovery Against Inflammation: From 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
• Index