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Bioactive Secondary Metabolites of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants and Their Disease-Fighting Properties
Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) play a vital role in traditional as well as modern medicine. According to World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 80% of total world’s population still relies on anc...
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Understanding the Mechanistic Functioning of Bioactive Compounds in Medicinal Plants
Modern synthetic medicines and antibiotics made its appearance less than 150 years ago, prior to which humans used to rely on herbal medicine for thousands of years. Plants produce secondary metabolites for th...
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Phytochemistry, Pharmacology and Toxicity of Medicinal Plants
Plants have been used for medicinal purposes from ancient times. The use of herbs is reported in ancient manuscripts of Egyptian papyrus, Unani, and Chinese writings. Some accounts are still commonly used by c...
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Ethnobotanical Properties and Traditional Uses of Medicinal Plant Abutilon theophrasti Medik
Plants have been an important and elementary root age of healthcare over the globe from time immemorial. Multifactorial health beneficial activity of these plants has been attributed to multipotent antioxidant...
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Saffron: A Therapeutic and Prophylactic Nutrition for Human Population
Saffron (Crocus sativus L.), a perennial herb that belongs to iris family Iridaceae, is the most expensive spice in the world known for its aroma, taste and colour used for flavouring, colouring, medicinal and ph...
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Roles of Phytometabolites in the Management of Obesity
Obesity is one of the leading causes of death because it is associated with most metabolic disorders in the body such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancers. Herbs are known to be natural so...
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Medicinal Plant-Derived Antimicrobials’ Fight Against Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens
Emergence of new multidrug resistance (MDR) microbes poses a threat to human and animal communities. The reason for such critical issues is due to unscientific-rampant uses in diseased persons and disposal of ...
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Environmental Pollutants and Their Remediation Using Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Phytoremediation, the use of green plants for the treatment and management of water, soil, and air pollutants, is an important part of the new field of environmental engineering. This chapter briefly elucidate...
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Multiple-Usage Shrubs: Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Usage and Their Environmental Beneficiations
The main goal of this chapter is to discuss the multiple usage of plants, one of which is its usage for medicinal and pharmaceutical applications besides their potential role in improving the environment. The ...
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State-of-the-Art Technologies for Improving the Quality of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
As suggested by the reports of the World Health Organization, the ancient knowledge of medicinal and aromatic plants still forms the basis of traditional and indigenous health system in most develo** countri...
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Synthetic Seed-Mediated Synchronized Multiplication Under In Vitro Conditions: An Efficient Technique for Conservation, Multiplication and Storage of Medicinal Plants
The synthetic seed technology holds the potential for a commercial scale plant production which can be proven as an alternative source of producing plants without the help of true seeds. The synthetic seeds ca...
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Medicinal Plants and Herbal Drugs: An Overview
Medicinal plants, which represent one of the greatest assets of ecosystem, have found their utilization in human life and healthcare system since early days of mankind and have still maintained their importanc...
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The Conservation and Utilization of Medicinal Plant Resources
Throughout the globe the medicinal plants are not only valuable but indispensable sources of new drugs. The use of medicinal plants as a source of relief and cure from various illnesses is as old as humankind ...
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Biodiversity, Management and Sustainable Use of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Resources
Medicinal plants are globally treasured sources of herbal and bioactive products, and they are threatened due to overexploitation, inappropriate harvesting and utilization. Population explosion and climate cha...
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Phytoremediation Potential of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Heavy metal stress has become a serious environmental challenge that has invited tremendous attention globally particularly for the safety of agricultural products. Heavy metals which refer to metals and metal...
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Potential Uses of Bioactive Compounds of Medicinal Plants and Their Mode of Action in Several Human Diseases
Herbal medicines are the prime source of medical care for a great proportion of the population of the develo** world. The control of human diseases by the use of plant products has several advantages besides...
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Nutraceutical Potential of Herbs and Aromatic Plants of Himalayan Region
Since time immemorial, plants have been the basis of many traditional medicines and continue to provide new remedies to mankind. Indian Himalaya is a biogeographically unique region, having critically endanger...
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Amaranthus caudatus L. as a Potential Bioresource for Nutrition and Health
Plants, the wonderful creations, not only fulfill our basic needs, such as food, shelter, and clothing, but they also provide services such as medicines, protecting environment, maintaining the balance,making ...
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Antidiabetic Property of Aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis) and Bitter Melon (Momordica charantia)
The pharmacological treatments of diabetes are costly and therefore necessitate the mutual usage of alternate medications. Aloe barbadensis (Aloe vera) is a medicinal plant which has got varied beneficial applica...
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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 ...
