Full Description
Ethnobotany: Ethnopharmacology to Bioactive Compounds comprises of carefully selected studies focusing on the importance of ethnobotanical data as an effective approach towards the discovery of novel ethnopharmacological properties and bioactive compounds that characterize herbal products, pharmaceutical drugs and medicinal plants. This book incorporates therapeutic, nutritional, phytochemistry and pharmacological properties of medicinal plants, mechanisms of action and clinical trials of bioactive compounds as well as the molecular basis of the bioactive compounds from the perspective of modern phytochemistry. This book will be useful for a diverse group of readers including students, botanists, pharmacists, chemists, herbalists and those researchers interested in ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology.
Contents
Taking Advantage of the Therapeutic/Nutritional Properties of Some Medicinal Plants for Use in Animal Feed. Resveratrol: Perspectives from Ethnobotanical uses to Health Applications. Coffee and Folk Medicine: Mechanisms and Activities. Use of Antidiabetic Medicinal Plants with Ethnomedicinal Information in Clinical Trials: Focus on Bioactive Compounds. Phytolaccaceae and Petiveriaceae Ethnobotany and Phytochemistry. Beyond Phytochemistry: Comparative Ethnobotany among Oneirogenic Alkaloid Containing Tabernaemontana species from Mexico and the Amazon and the African shrub Tabernanthe iboga (Apocynaceae). Phytochemistry and Bioactivity from Huperzias, used by Healers from Saraguro Community, in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes. The Genus Alepidea: A Review of its Medicinal Uses, Phytochemistry and Pharmacological Activities. Genus Salvia: Its Secondary Metabolites and Roles in the Treatment of Common Cancer Types in Men and Women. Molecular Basis of Ethnobotany and the Quest for Flavonoids: An Analytical Journey.
