Handbook Of African Medicinal Plants

Author : Maurice M. Iwu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993-02-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 084934266X

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Handbook of African Medicinal Plants, Second Edition by Maurice M. Iwu Pdf

Handbook of African Medicinal Plants provides a comprehensive review of over 1,000 species of plants employed in indigenous African medicine. It gives a concise description of the materia medica of an enormous and extensively varied continent, with well over 2,000 distinct tribes and several distinct floras. A detailed pharmacognostical profile of the major herbs is presented, including the common name, synonyms, African names, habitat and distribution, medicinal uses, chemical constituents, and published pharmacologic activity. This extensive catalog of plants is presented both in alphabetic order and according to family. References are cited from over 600 publications, and photographs and sketches illustrate many of the plants. The book also provides an introduction to African cosmology and beliefs as they relate to healing and the use of herbs. Handbook of African Medicinal Plants is an invaluable, practical desk reference that should be on the bookshelf of every pharmacognosist, ethnobiologist, botanist, ecologist, phytochemist, pharmacologist, and scientist interested in tropical plant utilization as a tool for the conservation of biodiversity and as a source of new drug leads.

Author : Maurice M. Iwu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781466571976

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Handbook of African Medicinal Plants, Second Edition by Maurice M. Iwu Pdf

With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centuries in traditional African medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases, Africa remains a minor player in the global natural products market largely due to lack of practical information. This updated and expanded second edition of the Handbook of African Medicinal Plants provides a comprehensive review of more than 2,000 species of plants employed in indigenous African medicine, with full-color photographs and references from over 1,100 publications. The first part of the book contains a catalog of the plants used as ingredients for the preparation of traditional remedies, including their medicinal uses and the parts of the plant used. This is followed by a pharmacognostical profile of 170 of the major herbs, with a brief description of the diagnostic features of the leaves, flowers, and fruits and monographs with botanical names, common names, synonyms, African names, habitat and distribution, ethnomedicinal uses, chemical constituents, and reported pharmacological activity. The second part of the book provides an introduction to African traditional medicine, outlining African cosmology and beliefs as they relate to healing and the use of herbs, health foods, and medicinal plants. This book presents scientific documentation of the correlation between the observed folk use and demonstrable biological activity, as well as the characterized constituents of the plants.

Author : Jean Pujol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063127181

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NaturAfrica by Jean Pujol Pdf

Author : Jean Pujol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020463571

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NaturAfrica by Jean Pujol Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Guías
ISBN : 2831708931

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A guide to medicinal plants in North Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shahina A. Ghazanfar
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994-08-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781482214956

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Handbook of Arabian Medicinal Plants by Shahina A. Ghazanfar Pdf

The Handbook of Arabian Medicinal Plants is the first illustrated reference on the uses of plants in the Arabian Peninsula. It documents and preserves the existing knowledge in a region where social patterns are rapidly changing. The book emphasizes the need for preserving social and cultural patterns.

Author : Ben-Erik Van Wyk,Bosch Van Oudtshoorn,Nigel Gericke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131232964

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Medicinal Plants of South Africa by Ben-Erik Van Wyk,Bosch Van Oudtshoorn,Nigel Gericke Pdf

A guide of the most commonly used and best known SA medicinal plants including their botany, traditional uses and active ingredients

Author : Nicci Diederichs
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781919980836

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Commercialising Medicinal Plants by Nicci Diederichs Pdf

The use and trade of medicinal plants in Southern Africa has been recognised as providing important primary health care benefits and livelihood opportunities, and being culturally significant. This industry and its current roleplayers are, however, threatened by a number of factors, including unsustainable and declining raw material supplies, unsupportive legislative frameworks, poor organisation, limited capacity, and new entrants into the industry with commercial interests.

Author : Zohara Yaniv,Uriel Bachrach
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1560229950

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Handbook of Medicinal Plants by Zohara Yaniv,Uriel Bachrach Pdf

Stay up-to-date with this important contribution to rationalized botanical medicine The Handbook of Medicinal Plants explores state-of-the-art developments in the field of botanical medicine. Nineteen experts from around the world provide vital information on natural products and herbal medicines—from their earliest relevance in various cultures to today’s cutting-edge biotechnologies. Educated readers, practitioners, and academics of natural sciences will benefit from the text’s rich list of references as well as numerous tables, figures, and color photographs and illustrations. The Handbook of Medicinal Plants is divided into three main sections. The first section covers the use of herbal medicines throughout history in China, Australia, the Americas, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean, emphasizing the need for future medicinal plant research. The second section discusses the latest technologies in production and breeding, crop improvement, farming, and plant research. The third section focuses on groundbreaking advances in the medicinal application of therapeutic herbs. In the Handbook of Medicinal Plants, you will gain new knowledge about: recent research and development in Chinese herbal medicine modern methods of evaluating the efficacy of medicinal plants by “screening” the newest developments of in vitro cultivation prevention and therapy of cancer and other diseases using medicinal plants the challenges and threats to medicinal plant research today trends in phytomedicine in the new millennium The Handbook of Medicinal Plants demonstrates the global relevance of sharing local knowledge about phytomedicines, and highlights the need to make information on plants available on a worldwide basis. With this book, you can help meet the challenge to find scientifically rationalized medicines that are safer, more effective, and readily available to patients from all walks of life.

Author : Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226086163

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Bitter Roots by Abena Dove Osseo-Asare Pdf

For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped personal patents. In Bitter Roots, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare draws on publicly available records and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies—including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Unilever—have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa’s medicinal plants. Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts to transform six plants into pharmaceuticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic pennywort, grains of paradise, Strophanthus, Cryptolepis, and Hoodia. Through the stories of each plant, she shows that herbal medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry have simultaneous and overlapping histories that cross geographic boundaries. At the same time, Osseo-Asare sheds new light on how various interests have tried to manage the rights to these healing plants and probes the challenges associated with assigning ownership to plants and their biochemical components. A fascinating examination of the history of medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Bitter Roots will be indispensable for scholars of Africa; historians interested in medicine, biochemistry, and society; and policy makers concerned with drug access and patent rights.

Author : Abayomi Sofowora
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
ISBN : 9782462195

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Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine in Africa by Abayomi Sofowora Pdf

Author : Anselm Adodo,Maurice M. Iwu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780429804472

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Healing Plants of Nigeria by Anselm Adodo,Maurice M. Iwu Pdf

Healing Plants of Nigeria: Ethnomedicine and Therapeutic Applications offers comprehensive information on the use of herbal medicines in West Africa. Combining an evidence-based, ethnobotanical perspective with a pharmacological and pharmaceutical approach to phytomedicine, the book bridges the gap between the study of herbal plants’ pharmacological properties and active compounds for the development of clinical drugs and community-oriented approaches, emphasising local use. It demonstrates how the framework of African traditional medicine can be preserved in a contemporary clinical context. The book outlines the history and beliefs surrounding the traditional use of herbs by the local population alongside their application in contemporary phytotherapy in Nigeria and West Africa. It features a critical assessment of the scientific rationale behind the use of these plants in ethnomedicine and offers a composite catalogue of phytotherapeutic and wellness agents, detailing the safety profile, efficacy, and scientific integrity of plants used to treat diseases and optimise health. Features: An ethnobotanical survey containing over 200 full-colour photographs of Nigerian and West African plants. A unique combination of ethnobotany and pharmacognosy, bridging the divide between pharmaceutical and community-oriented approaches to herbal medicine research. Contextual discussion of the therapeutic potential of Nigerian herbal medicine. Offers a template which can be used to separate the superstitious aspects of ethnomedicine from culturally inherited deposits of knowledge. A handbook for herbal and natural medicine practitioners, the book is aimed at African thinkers, scientists, healthcare providers and students of pharmacology and ethnomedicine.

Author : Maurice M. Iwu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781315354385

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Food as Medicine by Maurice M. Iwu Pdf

This comprehensive book documents African plants used for functional and medicinal foods. It contains more than 60 detailed monographs of African foods, describing foods with various characteristics such as prebiotic, probiotic, satiety, immune modulation, stress-reduction, sports performance, mental acuity, sleep-supporting, metabolic syndrome, antioxidant, and unsaturated fats. Plant description, botanical names and synonyms, plant part used, habitat and distribution, folk use, nutritional content, and chemistry are all fully detailed. The book highlights indigenous African food processing technologies up to the modern era.

Author : Narayan Das Prajapati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
ISBN : UVA:X004793469

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A Handbook of Medicinal Plants by Narayan Das Prajapati Pdf

This Book Describes More Than 1346 Medicinal Plants Found In The World. It Includes Vernacular Names,Description, Distribution, Part Use, Utilization, Active Principles, Agronomic Practices And Colour Plates.

Author : Victor Kuete
Publisher : Newnes
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780124059368

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Medicinal Plant Research in Africa by Victor Kuete Pdf

The pharmacopoeias of most African countries are available and contain an impressive number of medicinal plants used for various therapeutic purposes. Many African scholars have distinguished themselves in the fields of organic chemistry, pharmacology, and pharmacognosy and other areas related to the study of plant medicinal plants. However, until now, there is no global standard book on the nature and specificity of chemicals isolated in African medicinal plants, as well as a book bringing together and discussing the main bioactive metabolites of these plants. This book explores the essence of natural substances from African medicinal plants and their pharmacological potential. In light of possible academic use, this book also scans the bulk of African medicinal plants extract having promising pharmacological activities. The book contains data of biologically active plants of Africa, plant occurring compounds and synthesis pathways of secondary metabolites. This book explores the essence of natural substances from African medicinal plants and their pharmacological potential The authors are world reknowned African Scientists.