Most of the pharmaceuticals today include medicinal plants, herbal medicine, botanical medicine, alternative medicine, dietary supplements, nutritional supplements, herbal supplements, nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals. To cater to these areas, we provide in this encyclopaedia, medicinal plant cultivation, herbal medicine manufacture, quality control of herbal drugs, GMP for botanicals herbal pharmacopoeia and Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia of India besides a range of chapters giving detailed botanical and phytochemical information on medicinal plants and their standards and standardization methods.
This Encyclopaedia presents a systematic review on traditional herbal medicine including historical background, medical innovations introduced physicians, common roots of medicine and western medicine, methodology of drug discovery and therapy.
Contents:
Vol. 1
1. Medicinal Herbs
2. An Introduction to Herbal Medicine
3. Theoretical Concepts of Traditional European Naturopathy and Herbalism Used in Modern Therapy
4. Phytotherapy
5. Medical Herbalism
6. Plants Used in Herbal Medicine
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Index
Vol. 2
7. Indian Ayurveda Herbs
8. Global Promotion of Herbal Medicine : India’s Opportunity
9. Herbal Medicines for Wound Healing anong Tribal People in Southern India
10. History of Use of Traditional Herbal Medicines
11. Processing Herbs and Herbal Medicines
12. Indigenous Knowledge of Selected Medicinal Wild Plants
13. Medicinal Plants for Modern Heath Care
14. Socio-Economic, Ethical and Legal Implications of Herbal Medicine
15. Medicinal Plants and the Pharmaceutical Industry
16. Development of Supply Chains for Medicinal Plants : A Case Study, Vinca Rosa, Bihar India
17. Role of Medicinal Plants in Ayurvedic Systems of Medicine in India
18. Valuation of Medicinal Plants for Pharmaceutical Uses
19. Medicinal Plants : Are-emerging Health Aid
20. Global Herbal Market
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Index
Vol. 3
21. Potentially Hazardous Contaminants and Residues in Herbal Medicines
22. Guiding Principles for Assessing Safty of Herbal Medicines with Reference to Contaminants and Residues
23. The Value of Plants Used in Traditional Medicine for Drug Discovery
24. Quality Control, Screening Toxicity and Regulation of Herbal Drugs
25. Herbal Drugs in Medical Health Practices
26. Herbal Medicine for Market Potential in India
27. Traditional Herbal Medicine in Far-West Nepal : A Pharmacological Appraisal
28. Formulation and Evaluation of Herbal Tablets Containing Ipomoea Digitatalinn
29. Adverse Effects of Herbs and Drug-Herbal Interactions
30. The Present Status of Ayurveda and Medicinal Plants in India
31. Profile of the Ayurveda Industry
32. Medicinal Plants at Risk
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Index
Vol. 4
33. Medicinal Plants of India with Anti-diabetic Potential
34. Intellectual Property Rights for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India
35. The Immuno Pharmaceutical Effects and Mechanisms of Herb Medicine
36. Globalisation, Global Trends in Herbal Market and the Impact on Medicinal Plants
37. Ethno Medicine in Complementary Therapeutics
38. Legal Regime of Herbal Medicinal Industry in India
39. Phytochemical Processing
40. Essential Ayurvedic Plants
41. Plants of Herbal Use
42. More Plant Families of Medicine
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Index
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