Handbook of medicinal plants /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Food Products Press® : Haworth Medical Press®,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Trends and challenges in phytomedicine
- History of application of medicinal plants in China
- Ethnopharmacology of traditional Chinese drugs from medicinal plants
- Research and development of new drugs originating from Chinese medicinal plants
- African medicinal plants
- Dilemmas and solutions : Native American plant knowledge
- Ethnobotany and ethnomedicine of the Amazonian Indians
- Healers and physicians in ancient and medieval Mediterranean cultures
- Remedies from the bush : traditional medicine among the Australian Aborigines
- Production and breeding of medicinal plants
- Biological screening of medicinal plants
- Biotechnology in medicinal crops improvement
- In vitro cultivation of medicinal plants
- Medicinal plants in the prevention and therapy of cancer
- Phytochemicals and prevention of coronary heart disease
- A modern look at folkloric use of anti-infective agents
- Use of medicinal plants in CNS disorders
- Herbal medicine in endocrinology and metabolic disease
- Bioactive saponins from plants : recent developments
- Natural products and herbal medicines in the gastrointestinal tract
- Challenges and threats to interdisciplinary medicinal plant research