Medicinal Plants: From Farm To Pharmacy

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This book offers a fresh look on a variety of issues concerning herbal medicine - the methods of growing and harvesting various medicinal plants; their phytochemical content; medicinal usage; regulatory issues; and mechanism of action against myriad of human and animal ailments. ‘Medicinal Plants: From Farm to Pharmacy’ comprises chapters authored by renowned experts from academics and industry from all over the world. It provides timely, in-depth study/analysis of medicinal plants that are already available in the market as supplements or drug components, while also introducing several traditional herbs with potential medicinal applications from various regions of the world. The book caters to the needs of a diverse group of readers: plant growers, who are looking for ways to enhance the value of their crops by increasing phytochemical content of plant products; biomedical scientists who are studying newer applications for crude herbal extracts or isolated phytochemicals; clinicians and pharmacologists who are studying interactions of herbal compounds with conventional treatment modalities; entrepreneurs who are navigating ways to bring novel herbal supplements to the market; and finally, natural medicine enthusiasts and end-users who want to learn how herbal compounds are produced in nature, how do they work and how are they used in traditional or modern medicine for various disease indications. Front Matter ....Pages i-x The Evolution of Modern Medicine: Garden to Pill Box (Tejas S. Athni, Sudhir S. Athni)....Pages 1-16 Bioprospecting for Pharmaceuticals: An Overview and Vision for Future Access and Benefit Sharing (Danielle Cicka, Cassandra Quave)....Pages 17-34 Nepal: A Global Hotspot for Medicinal Orchids (Brajesh Nanda Vaidya)....Pages 35-80 Current Status and Future Prospects for Select Underutilized Medicinally Valuable Plants of Puerto Rico: A Case Study (Prachi Tripathi, Lubana Shahin, Ankush Sangra, Richa Bajaj, Alok Arun, Juan A. Negron Berrios)....Pages 81-110 Black Pepper: Health Benefits, In Vitro Multiplication, and Commercial Cultivation (Virendra M. Verma)....Pages 111-127 Prospects for Goji Berry (Lycium barbarum L.) Production in North America (Sadanand A. Dhekney, M. R. Baldwin)....Pages 129-140 Skullcaps (Scutellaria spp.): Ethnobotany and Current Research (Lani Irvin, Carissa Jackson, Aisha L. Hill, Richa Bajaj, Chonour Mahmoudi, Brajesh N. Vaidya et al.)....Pages 141-168 Cultivating Research Grade Cannabis for the Development of Phytopharmaceuticals (Hemant Lata, Suman Chandra, Esther E. Uchendu, Ikhlas A. Khan, Mahmoud A. ElSohly)....Pages 169-186 Natural Products as Possible Vaccine Adjuvants for Infectious Diseases and Cancer (Anna-Mari Reid, Namrita Lall)....Pages 187-213 In Vitro Plant Cell Cultures: A Route to Production of Natural Molecules and Systematic In Vitro Assays for their Biological Properties (Peeyushi Verma, Rakhi Chaturvedi)....Pages 215-241 Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, Analgesic, Anti-inflammatory and Antipyretic Effects of Bioactive Compounds from Passiflora Species (Narendra Narain, Saravanan Shanmugam, Adriano Antunes de Souza Araújo)....Pages 243-274 Modulation of Tumor Immunity by Medicinal Plant or Functional Food-Derived Compounds (Robert E. Wright III, Nirmal Joshee, Prahlad Parajuli)....Pages 275-290 Dietary Brown Seaweed Extract Supplementation in Small Ruminants (Govind Kannan, Thomas H. Terrill, Brou Kouakou, Jung H. Lee)....Pages 291-312 Discovery of Green Tea Polyphenol-Based Antitumor Drugs: Mechanisms of Action and Clinical Implications (Reda Saber Ibrahim Ahmed, Claire Soave, Tracey Guerin Edbauer, Kush Rohit Patel, Yasmine Elghoul, Antonio Vinicius Pazetti de Oliveira et al.)....Pages 313-332 Therapeutic and Medicinal Uses of Terpenes (Destinney Cox-Georgian, Niveditha Ramadoss, Chathu Dona, Chhandak Basu)....Pages 333-359 Unexplored Medicinal Flora Hidden Within South Africa’s Wetlands (Karina Mariam Szuman, Namrita Lall, Bonani Madikizela)....Pages 361-398 Sea Buckthorn: A Multipurpose Medicinal Plant from Upper Himalayas (Ashish Yadav, Tsering Stobdan, O. P. Chauhan, S. K. Dwivedi, O. P. Chaurasia)....Pages 399-426 Back Matter ....Pages 427-439