Medicinal Plants : Their Role in Health and Biodiversity / Olayiwola Akerele, Timothy R. Tomlinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akerele, Olayiwola, Editor.

Tomlinson, Timothy R., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany, Medical--Congresses.

Botany, Medical.

Medicinal plants--Congresses.

Medicinal plants.

Materia medica, Vegetable--Congresses.

Materia medica, Vegetable.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the beginning of human civilization, people have depended on plants to cure disease, promote healing of injuries, and alleviate pain. In many places that has changed very little. In the West, however, herbal and botanical cures have long been ignored in favor of "scientific medicine." But the benefits of medicinal plants are being rediscovered in many developed countries, where consumers are turning to such therapies in place of, and in addition to, Western medical treatments. And, all over the world, the drive to lower the cost of health care has made herbals and botanicals an attractive alternative to more expensive synthetic remedies.In 1978, the World Health Organization responded to increased interest in medicinal plants by convening a series of international consultations, seminars, and symposia to explore and promote the use of medicinal plants. Medicinal Plants presents the proceedings of the last of these symposia, held in 1993. It brings together an vast range of information and presents an overview of the use of medicinal plants that includes a discussion of a variety of issues—scientific, economic, regulatory, agricultural, cultural—focused on the importance of medicinal plants to primary health care and global health care reform.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: Promoting the Worldwide Use of Medicinal Plants

Acknowledgments

1. A Case History of Plant-Derived Drug Research: Phyllanthus and Hepatitis B Virus

2. An Expanded Program for Medicinal Plants

3. Exploiting Medicinal Plants: Why Do It the Hard Way?

4. Safety, Efficacy, and the Use of Medicinal Plants

5. Economics and Medicinal Plants

6. The Medicinal Plant Marketplace

7. Linking Ethnopharmacology and Tropical Forest: Conservation in Belize

8. Exploitation of Medicinal Plants

9. Agronomics and Medicinal Plants

10. The Role of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta in Traditional Medicine: A Personal Reflection and Case Study

11. The Legal Situation of Phytomedicines in Germany

12. Indonesia: The Utilization of Medicinal Plants for Primary Health Care

13. Ethnopharmacological Surveys in Brazilian Extractive Reserves

14. Traditional Korean Medicine

15. Utilization and Conservation of Medicinal Plants in China with Special Reference to Atractylodes lancea

16. Medicinal Plants in the Philippines

17. Promising Practices in the Use of Medicinal Plants in the United States

18. Medicinal Plants and Phytomedicines within the European Community

19. The Evolving Status of Herbals and Phytomedicines in the United States

Appendixes

Contributors

Index

Notes:

"Proceedings of an international symposium cosponsored by the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania and the World Health Organization, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1993"--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

OCLC:

681188266