
Medicinal Plants for Holistic Health and Well-Being
Description
Key Features
- The book details the scientific evidence that supports their pharmacological and therapeutic potential to safely and effectively treat each disease
- Each chapter highlights plants from worldwide locations so that scientists can study plants belonging to the same family, and how similar species can be used to treat a specific disease
- Use of traditional medicine as an efficient means to identify and further investigate South African, similar plants and plant-derived compounds in modern drug discovery
- Includes a number of chapters dedicated to using medicinal plants to treat various skin disorders, which is often not covered in other books on medicinal plants
- Organized by specific diseases, with vital evidence-based data related to the bioactivity, pharmacological potential, chemical structure and safety information
Readership
Professors and graduate students in the areas of medicinal plant science, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, phytomedicine and herbal science courses, as well as those discovery and development scientists engaged in natural product research in the pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical industries
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
2. Skin Cancer and Plants Traditionally Used in South Africa
3. South African Plants in Turning Back the Clock
4. Exploiting South African Plants for Acne Vulgaris
5. Medicine Plants as Alternative Treatments for Progressive Macular Hypomelanosis
6. Periodontal Diseases
7. South African Plants Against Tuberculosis Infections
Product details
- No. of pages: 328
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: September 27, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128124758
- eBook ISBN: 9780128124765
About the Editor
Namrita Lall
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