Recent Progress In Medicinal Plants (Phytoconstituents And Biochemical Processes)

by J.N. Govil, Lalit Tiwari

Overview

The use of plants as medicines goes back to early man. Certainly the great civilisations of the ancient Chinese, Indians, and North Africans provided written evidence of man's ingenuity in utilising plants for the treatment of a wide variety of diseases. Plants contain some organic compounds which provide definite biochemical action against various diseases on the human body. The curative properties of drugs are due to the presence of complex chemical substances of varied composition (present as secondary plant metabolites) in one or more parts of these plants. Recently many drugs are invented from the plants against various incurable diseases. Based on this phytochemistry, the present volume has been compiled and aims at providing recent data on potential medicinal properties, action and uses of plants to contribute material in the development of new active compound from plants. The volume contributes 18 research and review communications from 40 eminent scientists from 12 countries namely Belgium, Brazil, China, Congo, India, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Poland, Turkey, USA and Vietnam. The volume is divided into 18 chapters. The first chapter emphasized the impact of flavonoids on oxidation stress. The other one emphasized natural products which contribute the wound healing process by several mechanisms and play role to induce regeneration of the injured tissue. Here, Turkish traditional medicinal plants have been summarized for the bioactive wound healing activities. It should also be stated in all fairiness that our knowledge of the genetic and biochemical make-up of most of the medicinal plants is not adequate. Special chapter has been included on Molecular Pharmacognosy. Molecular identification has been applied in traditional medicine which has provided an identification basis at the gene level molecular pharmacognosy based on molecular identification technologies. The plant metabolites from Justicia adhatoda, Tylophora indica, Boswellia serrata, Ficus hispida, Alstonia congensis, Berberis, Sapindus, Solanum nigrum, Mentha piperita, Jatropha podagrica are grouped as alkaloids, glycosides, corticosteroids, essential oils etc. in different chapters. A comprehensive review on the inventorization and quality related aspects of fruits and seeds practiced in various systems of medicines like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani etc. and reviews on the concept of allelopathic of some medicinal plants especially focus on Aloe, Ajwain and Rohida tree are important aspects covered in this volume. This volume will be of interest to a wide range of audience including phytochemist, pharmacologist, microbiologist, pharmaceutical chemistry, ethnobotanist and other medical and research scientists engaged in the search of new drugs of plant origin.

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ISBN-13:	9781626993280
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2013
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Pages:	413
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About the Author

Dr. J.N. Govil (B. 1945): Obtained his Masters and Doctorate degrees from Agra University, Agra, India. In his career span of 41 years research experience at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, Dr. Govil has been involved in the breeding of cross-pollinated, often cross-pollinated, and self-pollinated crops. His research is mainly focussed on breeding for better quality, disease resistance, and for higher productivity in Pennisetum, Sorghum, maize, chickpea, and pigeonpea. Dr. Govil has been well exposed to the international scientific community through various training programmes. He took his training in “Plant exploration and collection techinques” through IBPGR in 1982. He was also awarded the prestigious FAO/IBPGR Fellowship in “Genetic resources, evaluation, and data preparation and management” at the University of Birmingham, UK. In 1983, he made visits to gene banks located in Europe. He also participated in various international seminars and conferences, including “Food and Legume Improvement for Asian Farming Systems” in Thailand in 1986. Dr. Govil is credited with more than eighty research papers in various journals of national and international repute in various aspects of genetics, crop breeding, and topics on general agriculture. He has written and edited a number of books on medicinal Plants (2 Vols each of two Titles) and other books with international authors. A new series “Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants” has been published by Studium Press, LLC, USA in 25 volumes under Dr. Govil’s Chief Editorship. Dr. Govil has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journals, New Botanist (An International Journal of Plant Research) and Glimpses in Plant Research, since 1988. He has also guided more than a dozen post-graduate students. Dr. J.N. Govil was actively engaged through his leadership on pigeonpea breeding with special emphasis on “Breeding short duration pigeonpea varieties for improved management and low input conditions.” Through his intensive efforts over the last 20 years, nine varieties of early pigeonpea in arhar-wheat rotation have been released at national level.Currently, Dr. Govil has retired from ICAR and has joined as Publishing Director and Managing Editor with Studium Press LLC, USA. E-mail: [e-mail]



Dr. Lalit Tiwari (Born February 21, 1980) did his M.Sc. in Botany in 2001 and Ph.D. on the topic of “Ethno-veterinary Medicines of Uttaranchal Himalaya”. After Post Graduation, he worked as Research Assistant in a project on “Traditional Knowledge System of Uttaranchal Himalaya” which was sponsored by Indra Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. During 2004 he worked in National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow as Senior Research Fellow in the project of “Development of Standards of Selected Therapeutically Important Indian Medicinal Plants and Preparation of Monographs” sponsored by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi. He has extensively traveled the remote areas of Uttarakhand Himalaya and is devoted to recording of the Traditional Medicine Knowledge of ethnic people and tribes. Dr. Tiwari had to credit more than 35 research articles on medicinal plants and a book “Folk Medicine and Aromatic Plants of Uttaranchal”. Presently he is working in Pharmacognosy section of Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Laboratory, Ghaziabad, U.P., India.
Dr. Lalit Tiwari (Born February 21, 1980) did his M.Sc. in Botany in 2001 and Ph.D. on the topic of “Ethno-veterinary Medicines of Uttaranchal Himalaya”. After Post Graduation, he worked as Research Assistant in a project on “Traditional Knowledge System of Uttaranchal Himalaya” which was sponsored by Indra Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. During 2004 he worked in National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow as Senior Research Fellow in the project of “Development of Standards of Selected Therapeutically Important Indian Medicinal Plants and Preparation of Monographs” sponsored by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi. He has extensively traveled the remote areas of Uttarakhand Himalaya and is devoted to recording of the Traditional Medicine Knowledge of ethnic people and tribes. Dr. Tiwari had to credit more than 35 research articles on medicinal plants and a book “Folk Medicine and Aromatic Plants of Uttaranchal”. Presently he is working in Pharmacognosy section of Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Laboratory, Ghaziabad, U.P., India.