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  1. (PDF) Medicinal Plants

    4.0/). Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende, 87036 Cosenza, Italy; [email protected]. Medicinal plants represent the most ancient form ...

  2. (PDF) Worldwide Research Trends on Medicinal Plants

    Discover the latest research on medicinal plants and their applications in various fields of medicine. Read and cite the full PDF on ResearchGate.

  3. Worldwide Research Trends on Medicinal Plants

    Figure 5. Temporal evolution on medical plants publications for Top 12 countries. The first group is the leaders of this research, China and India, with between 800 and 1100 publications per year. China led the research from 1996 to 2010, and from this year to 2016, the leader was India, after which it returned to China.

  4. Journal of Evidence-Based Traditional Medicinal Plants: A Source

    medicinal plants are readily available and culturally accepta-ble. They offer an accessible and affordable health care regime and serve as an important source of livelihood for indigenous rural populations.8 Research on plant and use of traditional medicinal information has again received considerable interest.

  5. PDF WHO published Volume 1 of the medicinal plants, containing 28

    WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants, Volume 2 (ISBN 92 4 154537 2), 2002 WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants, Volume 1 (ISBN 92 4 154517 8), 1999 Quality assurance and control of herbal medicines: WHO Guidelines on good agricultural and collection practices (GACP) for medicinal plants (ISBN 92 4 154627 1), 2003 Quality control ...

  6. (PDF) Phytochemistry of Medicinal Plants

    PDF | Medicinal plants are a rich source of bioactive phytochemicals or bionutrients. Studies carried out during the past 2-3 decades have shown that... | Find, read and cite all the research ...

  7. PDF Chapter 1 Medicinal Plants and Herbal Drugs: An Overview

    The history of medicinal plant utilization for therapeutic purposes dates back to antiquity. Medicinal plants form the mainstay of herbal drugs. These plants have been an integral part of the ancient traditional medicine systems, e.g. Chinese, Egyptian and Ayurvedic (Sarker and Nahar 2007). Medicinal plant products have

  8. Handbook of 200 Medicinal Plants

    The current book is an effort to provide detailed reviews of selected plants, especially for their uses in traditional medicines around the world, their updated phytochemical, pharmacological and clinical (if any) research, point out the reasons for variations and discrepancies, and highlight other nuances involved in research on medicinal ...

  9. PDF WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants

    graphs on medicinal plants commonly used in NIS have been completed and will be published soon. Based on the NIS countries model, in the fu-ture, WHO would like to cooperate with more countries or regions to develop their monographs on commonly used medicinal plants. Preparation of monographs for volume 4 Selection of medicinal plants

  10. Traditional Medicinal Plants: A Source of Phytotherapeutic Modality in

    Traditional medicinal plants are an important element of indigenous medical systems in China and rest of the world. 4 Traditional medicine refers to any ancient and culturally based health care practice differing from scientific medicine and is largely transmitted orally by communities of different cultures. 5 Traditional system of medicine is one of the centuries-old practice and long-serving ...

  11. The Role and Place of Medicinal Plants in the Strategies for Disease

    Medicinal plants will be useful for Maternal and Child health care, as essential drugs, in food and nutrition, for common illnesses and injury, for endemic infectious diseases, mental health and oral health. Medicinal plants also fit perfectly into the modelling for priorities in Primary Health Care as proposed by McDonald and Ollerenshaw (2011).

  12. Medicinal Plants and Their Traditional Uses in Local Communities around

    1. Introduction. Medicinal plants have been a vital source of both curative and preventive medical therapy preparations for human beings, which also has been used for the extraction of important bioactive compounds [1,2,3].It is estimated that almost 80% of the world's total population, regularly, depends on traditional medicine and products for its healthcare needs especially in third world ...

  13. PDF General overview of medicinal and aromatic plants: A review

    Journal of Medicinal Plants Studies 2020; 8(5): 91-93 ISSN (E): 2320-3862 ISSN (P): 2394-0530 NAAS Rating: 3.53 www.plantsjournal.com JMPS 2020; 8(5): 91-93 ... research work has recently yielded effective solutions to certain diseases which synthetic drug industry has failed to

  14. (PDF) Medicinal plants: Future source of new drugs

    School of Sciences, IGNOU, New Delhi, India. Medicinal plants: Future source of new drugs. Arvind Kumar Shakya. Abstract. India has a long history and strong base for Ayurveda, w hich is the ...

  15. (PDF) Medicinal Plants: the Medical, Food, and Nutritional Biochemistry

    In 2002, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN estimated that more than 50,000 medicinal plants are used all over the world (Schippmann et al., 2002).In 2016, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew conservatively estimated that 17,810 plant species have medicinal use, out of about 30,000 plants for which a use of whichever kind is documented ...

  16. PDF Worldwide Research Trends on Medicinal Plants

    Worldwide Worldwide research research on on medical medical plants. plants. The first group is the leaders of this research, China and India, with between 800 and 1100 publications per year. China led the research from 1996 to 2010, and from this year to 2016, the leader was India, after which it returned to China.

  17. PDF Medicinal Plants at Risk

    two drugs derived from a wild plant native to Madagascar. But we still know little about the treasure trove inhabiting our wild places. As of 1995, less than 1 percent of all tropical plant species had been screened for potential pharmaceutical applications. As medicinal plants receive increased scientific and commercial attention, there is

  18. Traditional uses of medicinal plants practiced by the indigenous

    Background Plant-derived products have an imperative biological role against certain pathogenic organisms and were considered to be a major source of modern drugs. Rural people residing in developing countries are relying on traditional herbal medical system due to their strong believe and minimum access to allopathic medicines. Hence, ethnomedicinal knowledge is useful for the maintenance of ...

  19. (Pdf) the Role of Medicinal Plants on Drug Development: a

    This review aims to discuss the importance of plants on pharmaceutical innovation and how biotechnology is a useful resource on taking the most out of plant feedstock. Key words: Medicinal plants, Biotechnology, Medicinal chemistry and Drug development. 1. Introduction Humanity using plants to health maintenance is not a new practice.

  20. IMPORTANCE AND USES OF MEDICINAL PLANTS

    A medicinal plant is any plant which has substances in its organs that can be used for therapeutic purposes or which are precursors for chemo-pharmaceutical synthesis [1]. Natural products ...

  21. Rapid Authentication of Medicinal Plants: Exploring the Applicability

    In the past few years, mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) has brought many new inspirations to plant research. However, current MSI experiments usually include only a single batch of samples, casting doubts on the reproducibility of phytochemical distribution across different batches. Consequently, MSI has seldom been applied to conduct species discrimination. In this experiment, MSI was employed ...

  22. Free Full-Text

    The use of medicinal plants has been done since ancient times and may even be considered the origin of modern medicine. Compounds of plant origin have been and still are an important source of compounds for drugs. In this study a bibliometric study of all the works indexed in the Scopus database until 2019 has been carried out, analyzing more than 100,000 publications. On the one hand, the ...

  23. Insights into the molecular mechanism underlying cold ...

    Saussurea laniceps is renowned for its extraordinary medicinal ingredients diversity, which is an important Tibetan medicinal plant in China. Flavonoids play an important role in the medicinal efficacy of S. laniceps. The species, however, has become increasingly scarce and endangered. Therefore, the use of callus to propagate medicinal resources is of great significance. We found that cold ...

  24. (PDF) Medicinal Plants and Their Pharmacological Aspects

    PDF | On Apr 29, 2018, Siddhartha Singh and others published Medicinal Plants and Their Pharmacological Aspects | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

  25. Research Guides: Library of Congress Science Tracer Bullet Inventory

    Part of the Science & Business Reading Room at the Library of Congress, the Science Section is the starting point for conducting research at the Library of Congress in the subject areas of science, medicine and engineering. Here, reference specialists in specific subject areas of science and engineering assist patrons in formulating search strategies and gaining access to the information and ...

  26. (PDF) A field study on Indian medicinal plants

    More than 100 field days are spent for the current study. Some of the regular cereals, pulses, vegetables and fruits are considered as medicinal plants. 540 species are herbs (mostly annuals), 100 ...