Screen LibraryPlant and human health. Volume 2, Phytochemistry and molecular aspects /
Early anthropological evidence for plant use as medicine is 60,000 years old as reported from the Neanderthal grave in Iraq. The importance of plants as medicine is further supported by archeological evidence from Asia and the Middle East. Today, around 1.4 billion people in South Asia alone have no...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham, Switzerland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Early anthropological evidence for plant use as medicine is 60,000 years old as reported from the Neanderthal grave in Iraq. The importance of plants as medicine is further supported by archeological evidence from Asia and the Middle East. Today, around 1.4 billion people in South Asia alone have no access to modern health care, and rely instead on traditional medicine to alleviate various symptoms. On a global basis, approximately 50 to 80 thousand plant species are used either natively or as pharmaceutical derivatives for life-threatening conditions that include diabetes, hypertension and |
| Carrier Form: | xxvi, 697 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783030033439 3030033430 9783319939964 3319939963 9783030044077 3030044076 |
| Index Number: | GN476 |
| CLC: | Q94-05 |
| Call Number: | Q94-05/P713/v.2 |
| Contents: | Molecular biodiversity convergence with biogeography and ethnobotany of rare and endangered medicinal plants from Northern Vietnam -- Health and illness as a state of being human -- Ethnobotanical explorations in Telangana, the youngest state in union of India: a synoptic account -- Ethnobotany and pharmacological uses of Elaeocarpus floribundas blume (Elaeocarpaceae) -- Medicinal plants against cancer -- Herbals in Igdir (Turkey), Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan), and Tabriz (Iran) -- The utilization and conservation of plants of medicinal value by local traditional medicinal practitioners and the a |