Plants as Medicine and Aromatics Pharmacognosy, Ecology and Conservation Exploring Medicinal Plants Series

Since ancient times, plants serve as a valuable source of traditional herbal medicines. Unlike modern medicines, herbal medicines have consistently demonstrated health advantages, including a lack of serious adverse side effects, long-lasting curative impacts and overall cost-effectiveness. Even today, with various modern pharmaceutical medicines commonly available, plant-based medicines and aromatics are increasingly in demand throughout the health sector globally, where they are used not only for the treatment of disease, but also, preventatively for maintaining good health.

People are seeking alternatives to modern medical treatments turning to phytomedicine for primary health care. However, an inadvertent consequence of this increased demand for herbal medicines has resulted in medicinal plants being threatened due to their initial small population sizes, narrow distribution areas, habitat specificity, and increasingly destructive non-sustainable harvesting.

This book critically examines and reviews the status of medicinal plants and includes several important case studies of representative plant species. It contains information on aspects concerning phytochemistry, natural products, cultivation, conservation techniques, environmental interactions, and therapeutic features of medicinal aromatic plants.

Features

• Evaluates plants as medicine and aromatics covering pharmacognosy and ecology of plants having therapeutic values.
• Discusses how plants can play a role in treatment of diseases and as potential therapeutics standards for maintaining good health.
• Presents conventional and contemporary approaches to conservation of such plants with commercial feasibility.

1. Medicinal Characterization and Phytochemical Constituents of Selected Native Plants of Guyana, South America: A Review 2. Ex-situ Conservation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants using InVitro Techniques 3. Conservation and Sustainable Management of Wild Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Species 4. Use of Plants as Medicine and Aromatical by Indigenous Communities of Morocco: Pharmacognosy, Ecology and Conservation 5. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants from Sudan: Traditional Uses, Pharmacology and Phytoconstituents 6. Rhus coriaria: A Review of Phytochemical and Biopharmaceutical Properties 7. Isolation of Bioactive Compounds From Medicinal Plants to Treat Neurological Disease 8. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants against Paratuberculosis 9. Standardization and Evaluation for Medicinal Properties of Cleome amblyocarpa Barr. And Murb. (Cleome africana) 10. The Concept and Status of Medicinal and Aromatics Plants: History, Pharmacognosy, Ecology, Conservation 11. Effect of Abiotic Stress on Production of Secondary Metabolites in Plants 12. Opportunities and Challenges for Medicinal and Aromatics Plants in Japan 13. Ecological, Phytochemical and Pharmacological Profile of Melissa Officinalis L.,. an Aromatic Medicinal Plant 14. Plants as Biomedicine for Skin Diseases in Pakistan 15. Chemical Characterization and Biological Analysis of the Essential Oil from Marlierea Eugeniopsoides on the Coast of Paraná – Brazil 16. Production of Bioactive Secondary Metabolites in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Cultivated in Turkeye 17. Use of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Metabolites in Cosmetics and Skin Diseases 18. Nutraceutical Perspectives of the Coastal Sand Dune Wild Legume Sesbania bispinosa 19. General Plant Geography Formation of the Aegean Region and the Use of Aegean Herbs in Local Cuisine and for Medicinal Purposes 20. Evaluation of the Medicinal and Ecological Aspects of Pteridophytes in Turkiye