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Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and Toxicity of an Epiphytic Medicinal Shrub Viscum album L. (White Berry Mistletoe)
Plants have many uses such as healers and health rejuvenators since ancient times. Since the ancient times, man has used plants to treat common infectious diseases, and some of these traditional medicines are ...
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Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and Pharmacokinetics of Phytoestrogens from Red Clover Extract: An Exhaustive Overview
Biochanin A and biochanin B (Formononetin) are the principal dietary isoflavones extensively found in herbal formulations of red clover extract (Trifolium pratense). The red clover-derived isoflavonoids have ther...
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Chicory Inulin: A Versatile Biopolymer with Nutritional and Therapeutic Properties
Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) is a widely distributed plant which belongs to the family Asteraceae. It is used for the treatment of many diseases related to the heart, kidney, and liver. It is reported as an ant...
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Aromatic and Medicinal Plants for Phytoremediation: A Sustainable Approach
Soil and water contamination with heavy metal and organic pollutants has become a worldwide environmental health issue that has attracted considerable public attention. Heavy metal pollution poses a great thre...
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Biosynthesis of Lemongrass Essential Oil and the Underlying Mechanism for Its Insecticidal Activity
Lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) is an aromatic perennial grass grown extensively for its essential oil. Lemongrass oil is chiefly a mixture of various cyclic and acyclic bioactive monoterpenes. We reviewed lemo...
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Toxicity: Its Assessment and Remediation in Important Medicinal Plants
The use of plant-derived products as phytomedicines can be dated back to the time of ancient man. In recent years of advances, awareness regarding the importance of medicinal properties of plants and their cru...
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System Biology Approach for Functional Analysis of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Plants often release some phytochemicals which are recognized as secondary metabolites and have pharmacological importance but are derived from natural plant extracts. These extracts can be obtained from plant...
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Use of Secondary Metabolites from Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in the Fragrance Industry
The metabolites biosynthesized by medicinal and aromatic plants make it possible to be part of the fragrance industry. Natural products have been used for millennia as raw materials for perfumery: flowers, fru...
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Medico-legal Perspectives of Usage, Commercialization, and Protection of Traditional Drug-Yielding and Essential Oil-Yielding Plants in India
India is one among the various mega biodiversity countries of the world, which is rich in ecosystem biodiversity and possesses more than 15 agro-climatic zones. Apart from various species of non-flowering plan...
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Secondary Metabolites in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs): Potent Molecules in Nature’s Arsenal to Fight Human Diseases
Nature, the supreme artist, and scientists have designed almost an infinite range of plant molecular bioactive molecules for drugs operative for the remedy of innumerable human disorders in the biosynthetic la...
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Medicinal Plant Resources: Threat to Its Biodiversity and Conservation Strategies
Today more than half of the population in develo** world doesn’t have access to adequate healthcare services. This may be due to the fact that poor people neither have access to nor could afford the modern h...
