Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Steps Towards Drug Discovery [Paperback]

Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants summarizes techniques and methods used to study the biological activities of plant-derived extracts and compounds to study ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological features of medicinal and aromatic plants.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Diversity, Biogeographic Distribution and Conservation Status. Chapter 2: Botanical Bases of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Chapter 3: Trends in Sustainable Use and Management of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Utilization and Development. Chapter 4: Threatened and Endangered Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Chapter 5: Ethnobotany, Ethnopharmacology, and Traditional Uses of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Chapter 6: Wild Edible Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Ancient Traditions. Chapter 7: Ethnopharmacology and Ethnopharmacognosy: Current Perspectives and Future Prospects. Chapter 8: Phytochemistry and Biosynthesis of Phytochemicals. Chapter 9: Phytochemicals as Immunomodulators, Nutraceuticals, and Pharma Food. Chapter 10: Phytochemotaxonomy: Role of Phytochemicals in Plant Classification: Chapter 11: Biological Roles and Mechanism of Phytochemicals in Disease Prevention and Treatment. Chapter 12: Metabolomics of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Chapter 13: Methods in Ethnopharmacology: Phytochemical Extraction, Isolation, and Detection Techniques. Chapter 14: Chromatographic Techniques in Phytochemistry and Analytical Techniques in Elemental Profiling. Chapter 15: NMR-based Metabolomics and Hyphenated NMR Techniques. Chapter 16 Animal Models in Phytopharmacology and Toxicological Testing of Plant Products. Chapter 17: Computational Phytochemistry in Drug Discovery: Databases and Tools. Chapter 18: Nanoformulations and Herbal Drug Development. Chapter 19: Novel Phytochemicals Targeting the Signaling Pathways of Anticancer Stem Cell: A Novel Approach Against Cancer. Chapter 20: Evolving Challenges and Opportunities in lÓ4