Plants as Medicine and Aromatics

Description:

Since ancient times, plants serve as a valuable source of traditional herbal medicines. Unlike modern medicines, herbal medicines have consistently demonstrated health advantages, including a lack of serious adverse side effects, long-lasting curative impacts and overall cost-effectiveness. Even today, with various modern pharmaceutical medicines commonly available, plant-based medicines and aromatics are increasingly in demand throughout the health sector globally, where they are used not only for the treatment of disease, but also, preventatively for maintaining good health.

People are seeking alternatives to modern medical treatments turning to phytomedicine for primary health care. However, an inadvertent consequence of this increased demand for herbal medicines has resulted in medicinal plants being threatened due to their initial small population sizes, narrow distribution areas, habitat specificity, and increasingly destructive non-sustainable harvesting.

This book critically examines and reviews the status of medicinal plants and includes several important case studies of representative plant species. It contains information on aspects concerning phytochemistry, natural products, cultivation, conservation techniques, environmental interactions, and therapeutic features of medicinal aromatic plants.

Features:

• Evaluates plants as medicine and aromatics covering pharmacognosy and ecology of plants having therapeutic values.
• Discusses how plants can play a role in treatment of diseases and as potential therapeutics standards for maintaining good health.
• Presents conventional and contemporary approaches to conservation of such plants with commercial feasibility.

Table of Contents:

1. Medicinal characterization and phytochemical constituents of selected native plants of guyana, south america: a review

Sirpaul Jaikishun, Abdullah Adil Ansari, Denis Maldonado, Florencia Guerra, Gomathinayagam Subramanian, Rajini Kurup, Mohd Kafeel Ahmad Ansari

2. Ex-situ Conservation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants with　InVitro　Techniques

Bengu Turkyilmaz Unal, Huseyin Turker, Munir Ozturk

3. Conservation and sustainable management of wild medicinal and aromatic plant species

Rajneesh Thakur and Rauoof Ahmad Rather

4. Use of plants as medicine and aromatical by indigenous communities of morocco: pharmacognosy, ecology and conservation

Noureddine Chaachouay, Abdelhamid Azeroual, Mohd Kafeel Ahmad Ansari, and Lahcen Zidane

5. Medicinal and aromatic plants from sudan: traditional uses, pharmacology and phytoconstituents

Mosa E. O. Ahmed, Abdelgadir A. Abdelgadir, and Elhadi M. Ahmed

6. Rhus coriaria: a reviewof phytochemical and biopharmaceutical　properties

SüleymanToprak and Cemi lİşlek

7. Isolation of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants to treat neurological disease

Mohammed Sohail Akhtar, Shyam Sundar Arputhanantham, and Wegdan Aly Shehata

8. Medicinal and aromatic plants against para tuberculosis

Varsha Srivastava, Manthena Navabharath, Rabea Parveen, Shoor Vir Singh, and Sayeed Ahmad

9. Standardization and evaluation for medicinal activities of cleome amblyocarpa barr. And murb. (cleome africana)

Mohammad Kamil

10. The concept and status of medicinal and aromatics plants: History, Pharmacognosy, ecology, conservation

Mohd Kafeel Ahmad Ansari, Muhammad Iqbal, Nouruddin Chaachouay, Abdullah Adil Ansari, , and Gary Owens

11. Effect of abiotic stress on production of secondary metabolites in plants

Monalisha Samal, Sageer Abass, Rabea Parveen, Sayeed Ahmad, and Muhammad Iqbal

12. Opportunities and challenges in medicinal and aromatics plants in Japan

Maiko Inoue and Shinichiro Hayashi

13. Ecological, phytochemical and pharmacological profile of melissa officinalis l., an aromatic medicinal plant

S. Nizamudeen, sana Nafees, and Huda Nafees

14. Plants as biomedicine for skin diseases in pakistan

Khafsa Malik, Mushtaq Ahmad, Zabta Khan Shinwari, Muhammad Zafar, Neelam Rashid, and Shazia Sultana

15. Chemical characterization and biological analysis of the essential oil from　Marlierea Eugeniopsoides　on the coast of Paraná – BRAZIL

Camila Confortin, Bruna Gonçalves Lopes, Ana Helena Loos Moritz, Wanderlei do Amaral, Luiz Everson da Silva, Michele Debiasi Alberton,and Deepak Chandran

16. Production of bioactive secondary metabolites in medicinal and aromatic plants cultivated in Turkey

Esra Koç and Belgizar Karayiğit

17. Use of medicinal and aromatic plant metabolites in cosmetics and skin diseases

Fatih Uckaya and Meryem Uckaya

18. Nutraceutical perspectives of the coastal sand dune wild legume sesbania bispinosa

Suvarna Jeppu Shreelalitha and Kandikere Ramaiah Sridhar

19. General plant geography-formation of the aegean region　and the use of　aegean herbs in local cuisine　and for medicinal purposes　

Feyza Candan

20. An evaluation of the medicinal and ecological aspects of pteridophytes in Turkiye

Mustafa Keskin, Volkan Altay and Munir Ozturk