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.
Author(s): Amit Baran Sharangi, K. V. Peter
Series: Innovations in Horticultural Science
Publisher: CRC Press/Apple Academic Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 601
City: Palm Bay
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
About the Editors
Table of Contents
Contributors
Abbreviations
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: Medicinal Plants: Perspectives and Retrospectives
Chapter 2: Traditional Medicine in Health Care and Disease Management
Chapter 3: Herbal Drug Discovery Against Inflammation: From Traditional Wisdom to Modern Therapeutics
Chapter 4: Foeniculum vulgare Mill: Flavoring, Pharmacological, Phytochemical, and Folklore Aspects
Chapter 5: Ocimum basilicum: A Model Medicinal Industrial Crop Enriched with an Array of Bioactive Chemicals
Chapter 6: Syzygium aromaticum, Curcuma longa, and Lavandula: Volatile Components and Antioxidant Activities
Chapter 7: Anti-Hyperglycemic Property of Medicinal Plants
Chapter 8: Improved Production and Postharvest Technologies in Ashwagandha (Indian Ginseng)
Chapter 9: Endangered Medicinal Plants of Temperate Regions: Conservation and Maintenance
Chapter 10: Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Threatened Medicinal Plants of North East India
Chapter 11: Essential Oils: Clinical Perspectives and Uses
Chapter 12: Asparagus sp.: Phytochemicals and Marketed Herbal Formulations
Chapter 13: Phytosomes: Preparations, Characterization, and Future Uses
Chapter 14: Synthetic Seeds vis-a-vis Cryopreservation: An Efficient Technique for Long-Term Preservation of Endangered Medicinal Plants
Chapter 15: Use of Microcomputed Tomography and Image Processing Tools in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Chapter 16: Postharvest Care of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: A Reservoir of Many Health Benefiting Constituents
Chapter 17: Prosopis cineraria (Khejri): Ethanopharmacology and Phytochemistry
Chapter 18: Mitigation of Obesity: A Phytotherapeutic Approach
Chapter 19: Ethnomedicinal Plants of North Eastern Himalayan Region of India to Combat Hypertension
Chapter 20: Medicinal Plants: Consumption, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Trade in India
Chapter 21: Potential of Spices as Medicines and Immunity Boosters
Chapter 22: Medicinal Plants: Future Thrust Areas and Research Directions
Index
