The medicinal properties of plants have been valued by every culture and civilization in the world. The volume focuses on the botany, phyto-chemcial compostion, medicinal uses along with pharmacological properties, of around 50 plants. Simultaneously, an attempt has been made to summarize the cellular and molecular mechanisms of the therapeutic actions of the herbs and introduced the major active chemical ingredients in relation to therapeutic values. Majority of biologically active plant principles reported in the volume are alkaloids, followed by sesquiterpenes, diterpenes, triterpene saponins, triterpene aglycones, flavonoids, sterols, coumarins, quinones and monoterpenes. The scope for commercial products developed is also described. The book is aimed at students of medicine, pharmacy, nursing, agriculture, botany and chemistry and is useful source book for medical practioners and others with a special interest in traditional medicine.
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Dr. Amani Shafiq Awaad was born on 25th August in 1963 in Cairo, Egypt. She completed her B.Sc and M. Sc in Pharmaceutical Science from the College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh and Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy from College of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo in 1995. She started her professional career as Assistant Researcher of Pharmacognosy (1994-1996 & 1999-2001) and worked as Head of Natural Products Unit (2000-2006) at the Aromatic and Medicinal Plants Department, Desert Research Centre, Cairo. She also worked as Post Doctoral Researcher (1997-1998) at School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science, Portsmouth University, U.K. and Post Doctoral Associate Professor (2003-2004) at Bradford University, U.K. in between. She has been working as Professor of Pharmacognosy since 2006 at Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She has been actively involved in Teaching and Research Guidance of students. She has handled several research projects. She is serving as Member of several important committees of the University and referee/editor for many journals of repute. She is also a member of several Professional Societies at National and International level. She is widely traveled and has attended several International Conferences. She has more than 30 research papers published in research journals of national and international repute and two technical bulletins to her credit. She has received several national and international awards for outstanding contribution in the field Aromatic and Medicinal Plants.
Dr. V.K. Singh (B. 1948): Formerly, Deputy Director (Botany) at Headquarter Office of the CCRUM, is responsible for execution of projects on ethnobotanical surveys, medicinal plants cultivation, development of Herbal gardens, and pharmacognostic studies of crude drugs. Dr. Singh received his Ph.D. in plant taxonomy (1971). He has been a plant explorer, ethnobotanist and conservationist and has taken a series of medicinal plants collection trips in different tribal areas, particularly in North India, for over 27 years (1971-1997). Based on his studies, he has to his credit over 85 research papers published in various scientific journals in India and abroad, 26 books dealing with medicinal plants and folk medicines of India including edited volumes. Of recent, Dr. Singh has been conferred CCRUM Award (2005) and received first prize from Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India, for his outstanding research contributions in the area of Survey and Cultivation of Medicinal Plants including development of Herb Gardens. Earliar, Dr. Singh was adjudjed for Award for Medical Research (1972) from erstwhile Central Council for Research in Indian Medicine and Homeopathy (CCRIMH) for his contribution to the botanical identity of controversial Ayurvedic drugs. Nominated as Referee for various scientific journals on medicinal plants, and also on the panel of experts committee on WHO studies on indigenous drugs in India. Recently, Dr. Singh was nominated by department of AYUSH, Govt. of India to participate and present his paper in an international symposium on medicinal and nutraceutical plants held at Georgia, USA, during March 2007. Between 2001-2002, Dr. V.K. Singh served in the National Medicinal Plants Board, Government of India, New Delhi and was actively associated in the policy formulations and guidelines for promotion & development of medicinal plants sector in the country. He contributed in a book on agrotechniques of medicinal plants entitled Cultivation Practices of Some Commercially Important Medicinal Plants. During 2002-2007, Dr. Singh headed a Project Awareness, Training and Cultivation of Medicinal Plants in Western U.P. Dr. V.K. Singh happens to be the pioneer in giving the concept of medicinal plants cultivation and marketing among the farmers of Western U.P. districts in India. E- mail : VKS_CCRUM@yahoo.co.in
Titel
Recent Progress In Medicinal Plants (Drug Plants II)
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EAN
9781626993211
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E-Book (epub)
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Veröffentlichung
30.06.2010
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Adobe-DRM
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11.09 MB
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650
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