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Biomedical Perspectives of Herbal Honey / by Rajesh Kumar, Suresh Kumar, Shamsher S Kanwar.
Springer Nature - Springer Biomedical and Life Sciences eBooks 2024 English International Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kumar, Rajesh.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food science.
- Pharmacology.
- Natural products.
- Clinical biochemistry.
- Internal medicine.
- Food Science.
- Natural Products.
- Medical Biochemistry.
- Internal Medicine.
- Local Subjects:
- Food Science.
- Pharmacology.
- Natural Products.
- Medical Biochemistry.
- Internal Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2024.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book overviews honey and herbs that profoundly affect human metabolism when mixed in a balanced ratio. It covers various aspects of honey added to herbs and provides collective information and practical approaches regarding herbal honey and its applications as functional food and medicine. Honey has miraculous properties like anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, free radical scavenging, and anti-carcinogenic, so honey has tremendous therapeutic importance. Infusion of extract from various medicinal herbs in honey further modulates its therapeutic potential. This book provides all the information about the essentials of herbs-infused honey and its efficiency in fighting against pathogenic bacteria. It presents the significance and benefits of honey infused with herbs that may promote/boost immunity to fight contagious or non-contagious diseases. Not only does this book explain the comprehensive knowledge of herbal honey and its medicinal properties based on current researched evidence, but it also explores the contribution of herbal honey in the food science and medicine industry as a significant part of nutraceuticals and functional food research. By providing knowledge about the formulation of traditionally used herbs in combination with honey, scientific knowledge can be supplied and made available to the common public which shall probably be a real contribution to society.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Honey-Nature’s Miraculous Gift
- Chapter 2. Pharmacological Properties of Honey
- Chapter 3. Herbs as Therapeutics and Healers
- Chapter 4. Herbs of Bee Interest
- Chapter 5. Infusion of Honey with herbs
- Chapter 6. Herbal-Infused Honey vis-à-vis Human Health
- Chapter 7. A to Z Herbs for Honey Infusion
- Chapter 8. Critical Analysis and Future Perspectives
- Chapter 9. Photographic Plates
- Chapter 10. Bibliography
- Chapter 11. Appendices
- Chapter 12. Glossary.
- ISBN:
- 9789819715299
- 9819715296
- OCLC:
- 1432006421
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