Full Description
Medicinal plants have received an impetus recently due to revival of attention in natural products in form of herbal medicines demanding convincing knowledge on their phytochemistry, status, cultivation, and utilization. Medicinal plants in the Sultanate of Oman have tremendous potential in terms of ethnomedicinal and food applications. However, these treasures of Oman have not been fully explored until recently. Several medicinal plants indigenous to Oman have been used for several centuries in form of traditional medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases. The first volume of this book uncovers information about sustainable use of selected medicinal plants, their phytochemistry and efforts made to conserve them to ensure continued supply. This volume reveals systematic information about 104 promising medicinal plants in Oman with botanical names, common names, synonyms, local names, family, habitat and distribution, chemical constituents, cultivation and collection, pharmacological activity, uses (a. common uses; b. traditional uses; therapeutic uses), toxicity and clinical data, status, patents, and their marketed products or industrial application. Each of the 104 plants has a high-resolution color photograph, plant description, and location. The chapters are written by well-experienced authors in the field. A uniform chapter structure throughout this book has been designed to keep consistency. This book is especially valuable to academicians, phytochemists, pharmacologists, herbalists, agriculturists, biotechnologists, natural product researchers, and industrialists involved in the production of herbal drugs. Salient features of this book include:
Ιt provides common uses, traditional uses, and therapeutic uses of 132 medicinal plants.
It uncovers the detailed phytochemistry of each medicinal plant.
It offers systematic information about their geographical distribution and current status of these plants.
Updated information about the pharmacology, mechanisms of action, and toxicity of these plants is mentioned in detail.
Overall, this book provides an overview of botanical description, geographical distribution, chemical composition and uses of the medicinal plant's endemic to Sultanate of Oman.
Many of the plants listed in this book—particularly in Volume One—are endemic, near‑endemic, or regionally endemic medicinal and aromatic species of Oman, which remain largely unexplored and are supported by limited scientific literature. Due to this scarcity of information, the authors have included relevant data from closely related species within the same genus. This approach enables readers to better understand the chemistry, taxonomy, and potential uses of the respective species in the context of their taxonomic relatives.
Contents
1. Genus Abelmoschus 2. Genus Abutilon 3. Genus Acacia (Senegalia and Vachellia) 4. Genus Acalypha 5. Genus Achyranthens 6. Genus Acridocarpus 7. Genus Adansonia 8. Genus Adesnociadium 9. Genus Adenium 10. Genus Aerva 11. Genus Aizoon 12. Genus Alectra 13. Genus Aloe 14. Genus Allophylus 15. Genus Alternanthera 16. Genus Amaranthus 17. Genus Anagallis 18. Genus Ammi 19. Genus Anastatica 20. Genus Andrachne 21. Genus Argemone 22. Genus Anthemis 23. Genus Anticharis 24. Genus Anogeissus (Terminalia) 25. Genus Apium 26. Genus Ageratum 27. Genus Arnebia 28. Genus Azima 29. Genus Aristolochia 30. Genus Artemisia 31. Genus Arthrocaulon 32. Genus Asperugo 33. Genus Asplenium 34. Genus Asphodelus 35. Genus Asteriscus (Pallenis) 36. Genus Astragalus 37. Genus Atractylis 38. Genus Atriplex 39. Genus Bacopa 40. Genus Balanites 41. Genus Basananthe 42. Genus Berberis 43. Genus Bergia 44. Genus Bidens 45. Genus Blepharis 46. Genus Blumea 47. Genus Boerhavia 48. Genus Boscia 49. Genus Boswellia 50. Genus Cadaba 53. Genus Calendula 54. Genus Calotropis 55. Genus Capparis 56. Genus Caralluma (Desmidorchis) 57. Genus Cardiospermum 58. Genus Chenopodium 59. Genus Carduus 60. Genus Carissa 61. Genus Caudanthera 62. Genus Carthamus 63. Genus Centaurea 64. Genus Centaurium 65. Genus Ceratonia 66. Genus Chlorophytum 67. Genus Chrozophora 68. Genus Cichorium 69. Genus Cissus 70. Genus Cistanche 71. Genus Citrullus 72. Genus Citrus 73. Genus Clematis 74. Genus Cleome 75. Genus Corbichonia 76. Genus Commiphora 77. Genus Convolvulus 78. Genus Corchorus 79. Genus Cordia 80. Genus Cornulaca 81. Genus Corallocarpus 82. Genus Ceropegia 83. Genus Cressa 84. Genus Crotalaria 85. Genus Croton 86. Genus Cucumis 87. Genus Cuscuta 88. Genus Cymbopogon 89. Genus Cyphostemma 90. Genus Cyperus 91. Genus Dalbergia 92. Genus Dalechampia 93. Genus Daphne 94. Genus Datura 95. Genus Delonix 96. Genus Dionysia 97. Genus Dipcadi 98. Genus Diplotaxis 99. Genus Dipterygium 100. Genus Dodonaea 101. Genus Dorstenia 102. Genus Dracaena 103. Genus Ducrosia 104. Genus Plumbago
