Herbal Medicines: A Boon for Healthy Human Life provides a comprehensive overview of the role of herbal medicines for treating a broad variety of human diseases, from neurological disorders to cancer and major disorders such as infectious diseases, metabolic disorders, and more. Each chapter summarizes the current state and future direction of the use of herbal medicines against multiple diseases from a translational point-of-view, making this reference a valuable source of information for a large audience, including researchers and healthcare providers interested in the field of herbal remedies.
- Discusses essential evidence-based information about herbal medicines
- Provides an update to new discoveries and recent advances on the use of herbal medicines to treat multiple human diseases
- Includes information on clinical studies and covers all major medicinal compounds, including alkaloids, glycosides, polyphenols and terpenes
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Elsevier Science & Techn.
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Approx. 110 illustrations (60 in full color)
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978-0-323-90699-9 (9780323906999)
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1. Herbal drugs and alternative methods used to treat Neurodegenerative diseases.2. Review on correlations between depression and nutritional status of elderly patients.3. Herbal Medicines for Alzheimer's Disease4. Herbal remedies against Huntington's disease: preclinical evidences and future directions5. Herbal Medicine for Mood Disorder
ORAL HEALTH6. Leveraging Microbicidal and Immunosuppressive Potential of Herbal Medicine in Oral Diseases
METABOLIC DISORDERS AND OVERALL HEALTH7. Herbal Medicines for the Treatment of Metabolic Disorders8. Herbal Medicines for Diabetes: Insights and recent advancement9. Diabetes, a Metabolic Disorder: Herbal medicines on rescue10. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Herbal Medicine11. Traditional Herbal Medicines as Bio resource and Health Security12. Traditional Nutritional and Health Practices to Tackle the Lifestyle Diseases13. Impact of Pre-Biotics and Probiotics Consumption on Human Health14. Ethnic foods and concentrates: Its role in health protection
SKIN DISORDERS15. Herbal Medicines and Skin Disorders16. Herbal Medicine and common dermatological diseases17. Role of Herbal Products as Therapeutic Agents Against Ultraviolet Radiation-Induced Skin Disorders.18. On Bioactive Compounds and the Endophyte community in Medicinal Plants: Bioprocessing Nature's Abundance for Skin Disorder Treatment
REPRODUCTIVE DISORDERS19. Future of Herbal Medicines in assisted reproduction20. Herbal Medicine to Cure Male Reproductive Dysfunction21. Polycystic Ovarian syndrome: causes and Therapies by herbal medicine
INFECTIOUS DISEASES22. Emerging alternative vaccines and treatment strategies for tuberculosis23. Role of Herbal medicines in combating antibiotic resistance in infectious diseases24. Ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological approaches used in the management of tuberculosis
CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS25. Targeting fibrosis by herbal medicine to prevent heart failure26. Natural Antioxidant Therapy in Oxidative Stress induced Myocardial Ischemia
CANCER27. Targeting metabolism with herbal therapy: a preventative approach towards cancer28. Uses of Herbal Medicines in Palliative Care of Cancer Patients29. Effect of Amygdalin and dichloroacetate on human breast cancer 30. Herbal Medicines and Bladder Cancer31. Cannabis-derived compounds for cancer treatment
CONCERN32. Do we really fathom the molecular biology data resulting from our studies on traditional herbal medicine?