Medicinal Plants: Bioprospecting and Pharmacognosy

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