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Taylor and Francis Ltd Medicinal Plants 1st Edition 2022 Hardbound by Sharangi, Amit Baran
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. 1. Medicinal Plants: Perspectives and Retrospectives 2. Traditional Medicine in Health Care and Disease Management 3. Herbal Drug Discovery Against Inflammation: 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