Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Steps Towards Drug Discovery. 2023. (Exploring Medicinal Plants Series). 142 (4 col.) figs. 464 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Medicinal and aromatic plants are beneficial to human health benefitting human health. Plant-derived molecules possess biological activities that can be used to prevent many infectious diseases and metabolic disorders. 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.

Features:

Includes computational approaches to study the pharmacological properties of biomolecules in medicinal and aromatic plants.

Details methods in ethnopharmacology including chromatographical and analytical techniques.

Demonstrates trends in sustainable use and management of medicinal and aromatic plants.

Features information on databases and tools used in computational phytochemistry for drug designing and discovery

Elucidates the importance phytochemicals as immunomodulators in herbal drug development including its nano-formulations.