1st Edition
Traditional Herbal Therapy for the Human Immune System
Drawing on indigenous and scientific knowledge of medicinal plants, Traditional Herbal Therapy for the Human Immune System presents the protective and therapeutic potential of plant-based drinks, supplements, nutraceuticals, synergy food, superfoods, and other products. Medicinal plants and their products can affect the immune system and act as immunomodulators.
Medicinal plants are popularly used in folk medicine to accelerate the human immune defence and improve body reactions against infectious or exogenous injuries, as well as to suppress the abnormal immune response occurring in immune disorders. This book explains how medicinal plants can act as a source of vitamins and improve body functions such as enhanced oxygen circulation, maintained blood pressure and improved mood. It also outlines how specific properties of certain plants can help boost the immune system of humans with cancer, HIV, and COVID-19.
Key features:
- Provides specific information on how to accelerate and or fortify the human immune system by using medicinal plants.
- Presents scientific understanding of herbs, shrubs, climbers and trees and their potential uses in conventional and herbal medicine systems.
- Discusses the specific role of herbal plants that act as antiviral and antibacterial agents and offer boosted immunity for cancer, H1N1 virus, relieving swine flu, HIV and COVID-19 patients.
Part of the Exploring Medicinal Plants series, this book is useful for researchers and students, as well as policy makers and people working in industry, who have an interest in plant-derived medications.
Contents
Preface.......................................................................................................................ix
About the Editor.........................................................................................................xi
Contributors............................................................................................................ xiii
Disclaimer...............................................................................................................xvii
Chapter 1 Plant-based Potential Nutraceuticals for Improving
the Human Immune System..................................................................1
Azamal Husen and Muhammad Iqbal
Chapter 2 Antibacterial Properties of Medicinal Plants: Recent Trends,
Progress, and Challenges.................................................................... 13
Limenew Abate, Archana Bachheti, Rakesh Kumar Bachheti,
and Azamal Husen
Chapter 3 Antiviral Activity of Medicinal Plants: Current
Understanding, Prospects, and Challenges......................................... 55
Venkateish V P, Nivya V, Vani V, Baskaran V, and Madan Kumar P
Chapter 4 Conventional Medicinal Plants: Boosting the Immune
System in Humans............................................................................... 75
Antul Kumar, Anuj Choudhary, Harmanjot Kaur,
Asish Kumar Padhy, and Sahil Mehta
Chapter 5 Medicinal Plants for Strong Immune System and
Traditional Skin Therapy in South Africa: An Overview ................ 123
Learnmore Kambizi and Callistus Bvenura
Chapter 6 Traditional African Medicinal Plants for a Strong Immune System.......173
Anywar Godwin
Chapter 7 Traditional Brazilian Medicinal Plants for a Strong
Immune System................................................................................. 199
José Crisólogo de Sales Silva,
Solma Lúcia Souto Maior de Araújo Baltar,
and Maria Lusia de Morais Belo Bezerra
Chapter 8 Traditional Himalayan Plants: Nature’s Gift for Maintaining
a Strong Immune System.................................................................. 211
Antul Kumar, Anuj Choudhary, Harmanjot Kaur, Atul Arya,
Baljinder Singh, and Sahil Mehta
Chapter 9 Traditional South Indian Herbal Plants for a Strong
Immune System.................................................................................245
Mani Divya and Sekar Vijayakumar
Chapter 10 Sacred Medicinal Plants and their Use by Indigenous
People for Strengthening the Immune System.................................. 255
Jamal Akhtar and Fouzia Bashir
Chapter 11 Molecular Features of Potential Herbal Products in
Enhancing Human Immune System.................................................. 301
Chandrabose Selvaraj, Chandrabose Yogeswari, and
Sanjeev Kumar Singh
Chapter 12 Specific Plant Nutrients and Vitamins that Fortify Human
Immune System................................................................................. 363
Kirubel Teshome Tadele and Gebeyanesh Worku Zerssa
Chapter 13 Role of Specific Spices in Fortifying the Human
Immune System.................................................................................397
Yashdeep Srivastava, Swati Upadhyay, Mohd Ahmad,
Deepak Kumar Verma, and Vinod Kumar Mishra
Chapter 14 Specific Fruits and Berries for a Strong Human Immune System.......411
Rakesh Kumar
Chapter 15 Natural Immunity Boosters and Anticancer Medicinal Plants......... 431
Swati Agarwal, Sonu Kumari, and Amrendra Kumar
Chapter 16 Potential of Medicinal Plants as Immunity Booster
against COVID-19............................................................................. 455
Saumya Pandey
Index....................................................................................................................... 475
Biography
Azamal Husen served as Professor & Head, Department of Biology, University of Gondar, Ethiopia and is a Foreign Delegate at Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia. He specializes in biogenic nanomaterial fabrication and application, plant responses to environmental stresses and nanomaterials at the physiological, biochemical and molecular levels, herbal medicine, and clonal propagation for improvement of tree species, and has published over 200 research articles. He is contributed to R&D projects of World Bank, ICAR, ICFRE, JBIC etc. He is on the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. Husen has been on the Editorial Board and the panel of reviewers of several reputed journals. He is a Fellow of the Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, and a Member of the International Society of Root Research, Asian Council of Science Editors, and INPST. He is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Plant Physiology, and a Series Editor of Exploring Medicinal Plants (Taylor & Francis Group, USA); Plant Biology, Sustainability, and Climate Change (Elsevier, USA); and Smart Nanomaterials Technology (Springer Nature, Singapore).
