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The Silk Road, a complex network of trade routes linking China with the rest of the Eurasian continent by land and sea, fostered transformation of the ethnic, cultural, and religious identities of diverse peoples. In Natural Products of Silk Road Plants there is a treasury of plants, many indigenous to countries along the trading routes of the Silk Road, that yielded medicines, cereals, spices, beverages, dyes, and euphoric and exotic compounds previously unknown to the rest of the world.
This entry in the Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants series has been prepared for university students of chemistry and ethnobotany and for those wishing to broaden their knowledge. It opens a window on a vast region of Asia not well described for its flora and provides new and fresh insights on:
Significant plants, some endangered
Traditional and modern applications of extracts
The biochemical and pharmacological properties of extracts
Contains over 150 full colour figures
The significance of the Silk Road is being revived today through immense investment by China and other eastern countries in major schemes of transport infrastructure.
Contents
1. Medicinal Plants of Mongolia 2. Medicinal Plants of Tibet and the Surrounding Region 3. Medicinal Plants of the Trans-Himalayas 4. Medicinal Plants of Central Asia 5. Melons of Central Asia 6. Resources along the Silk Road in Central Asia: Lagochilus inebrians Bunge (Turkestan mint) and Medicago sativa L. (alfalfa) 7. An overview of important Endemic Plants and their Products in Iran 8. Crocus Sativus and the Prized Commodity, Saffron 9. Natural Plant Dyes of Oriental Carpets 10. Wheat and Rice - Ancient and Modern Cereals 11. Ethnobotany of the Silk Road - Georgia, the Cradle of Wine 12. Plants Endemic to Turkey including the Arnebia genus 13. Maritime Routes through Sri Lanka: Medicinal Plants and Spices
