Medicinal Plants
Bioprospecting and Pharmacognosy
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Book Description
With chapters written by scientists from respected institutes and universities around the world, this book looks at the bioprospecting of medicinal plants for potential health uses and at the pharmacognosy of a selection of medicinal and aromatic plants.
The book touches on a diverse selection of topics related to medicinal plants. Chapters look at the use of medicinal plants in healthcare and disease management, such as to treat inflammation, antihyperglycemia, and obesity and as immunity boosters. The authors also address the conservation, maintenance, and sustainable utilization of medicinal plants along with postharvest management issues. A chapter discusses the use of synthetic seeds in relation to cryopreservation, and a chapter is devoted to the use of microcomputed tomography and image processing tools in medicinal and aromatic plants. Other topics include consumption, supply chain, marketing, trade, and future directions of research.
Table of Contents
1. Medicinal Plants: Perspectives and Retrospectives
D. V. Swami, M. Anitha, M. Chandra Surya Rao, and A. B. Sharangi
2. Traditional Medicine in Health Care and Disease Management
Sumana Sarkhel
3. Herbal Drug Discovery Against Inflammation: From Traditional Wisdom to Modern Therapeutics
Shalini Dixit, Karuna Shanker, Madhumita Srivastava, Priyanka Maurya, Nupur Srivastava, Jyotshna, and Dyaneshwar U. Bawankule
4. Foeniculum vulgare Mill: Flavoring, Pharmacological, Phytochemical, and Folklore Aspects
Navneet Kishore and Akhilesh Kumar Verma
5. Ocimum basilicum: A Model Medicinal Industrial Crop Enriched with an Array of Bioactive Chemicals
Sunita Singh Dhawan, Pankhuri Gupta, and Raj Kishori Lal
6. Syzygium aromaticum, Curcuma longa, and Lavandula: Volatile Components and Antioxidant Activities
Hiroko F. Kasai
7. Anti-Hyperglycemic Property of Medicinal Plants
Karanpreet Singh Bhatia, Arpita Roy, and Navneeta Bhardavaj
8. Improved Production and Postharvest Technologies in Ashwagandha (Indian Ginseng)
A. C. Jnanesha and Ashish Kumar
9. Endangered Medicinal Plants of Temperate Regions: Conservation and Maintenance
Dhiman Mukherjee
10. Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Threatened Medicinal Plants of North East India
Kalkame Ch. Momin and N. Surmina Devi
11. Essential Oils: Clinical Perspectives and Uses
Jugreet Bibi Sharmeen and Mahomoodally Mohamad Fawzi
12. Asparagus sp.: Phytochemicals and Marketed Herbal Formulations
Vikas Bajpai, Pratibha Singh, Preeti Chandra, and Brijesh Kumar
13. Phytosomes: Preparations, Characterization, and Future Uses
Palakdeep Kaur and Uttam Kumar Mandal
14. Synthetic Seeds vis-a-vis Cryopreservation: An Efficient Technique for Long-Term Preservation of Endangered Medicinal Plants
Md. Nasim Ali and Syandan Sinha Ray
15. Use of Microcomputed Tomography and Image Processing Tools in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Yogini S. Jaiswal, Yanling Xue, Tiqiao Xiao, and Leonard L. Williams
16. Postharvest Care of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: A Reservoir of Many Health Benefiting Constituents
Ankan Das and A. B. Sharangi
17. Prosopis cineraria (Khejri): Ethanopharmacology and Phytochemistry
Tarun Kumar Upadhyay, Manas Mathur, Rakesh Kumar Prajapat, Sunil Kumar Nagar, Kulveer Singh, Fahad Khan, Pratibha Pandey, and Mohammad Mustufa Khan
18. Mitigation of Obesity: A Phytotherapeutic Approach
A. B. Sharangi and Suddhasuchi Das
19. Ethnomedicinal Plants of North Eastern Himalayan Region of India to Combat Hypertension
Pintubala Kshetri, K. Tamreihao, Subhra Saikat Roy, Thangjam Surchandra Singh, Susheel Kumar Sharma, and Meraj Alam Ansari
20. Medicinal Plants: Consumption, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Trade in India
Debashis Mandal
21. Potential of Spices as Medicines and Immunity Boosters
Minoo Divakaran, K. Nirmal Babu, and K. V. Peter
22. Medicinal Plants: Future Thrust Areas and Research Directions
K. V. Peter and A. B. Sharangi
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Biography
Amit Baran Sharangi, PhD, is Professor of Horticultural Science and former Head of the Department of Plantation, Spices, Medicinal and Aromatic Crops in the Faculty of Horticulture at Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya (Agricultural University), India. He has been teaching for 23 years and was instrumental in the process of coconut improvement, leading to the release of a variety Kalpa Mitra from the Central Plantation Crops Research Institute. He spent time at several laboratories around the world and has published many research papers, conference papers, book chapters, and books. One of his papers was ranked among the top 25 articles by ScienceDirect. Presently he is associated with 50 international and national journals as editor-in-chief, associate editor, regional editor, technical editor, editorial board member, and reviewer. The recipient of several international awards, Dr. Sharangi has delivered invited lectures around the world on herbs and spices.
K. V. Peter, PhD, is the former Vice-Chancellor at Kerala Agricultural University (KAU), India; Director of ICAR–Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut; Director of Research at KAU; and Professor of Horticulture. He is an acknowledged teacher and science manager and is associated with development of biotic stress resistant varieties in chili (Pant-CI, Pant-C2), tomato (Sakthi), and brinjal (Surya) grown throughout the Indian sub-continent. He is the author or editor of many books and is Editor (Horticulture) of Agricultural Research, published by NAAS New Delhi. Dr. Peter has received many awards for his work. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Biological Sciences, International Society of Noni Science, Indian Academy of Horticulture Science, and Confederation of Horticultural Associations of India.