(Ebook) Plants as Medicine and Aromatics: Pharmacognosy, Ecology and Conservation by Mohd Kafeel Ahmad Ansari, Bengu Turkyilmaz Unal, Munir Ozturk, Gary Owens ISBN 9781032117744, 1032117745

(Ebook) Plants as Medicine and Aromatics: Pharmacognosy, Ecology and Conservation by Mohd Kafeel Ahmad Ansari, Bengu Turkyilmaz Unal, Munir Ozturk, Gary Owens ISBN 9781032117744, 1032117745

Since the dawn of civilization, plants have been ubiquitously used as a valuable source of traditional,plant-based, “herbal” medicine. Unlike modern medicine, herbal medicines have several majoradvantages, including general absence of serious, adverse side effects, long-lasting curative impact,and overall cost effectiveness. Even today, plant-based medicines and aromatics are increasingly indemand throughout the health sector globally, which involves their use not only for the treatment ofdiseases but also as potential therapeutic standards for maintaining good health. Almost two-thirdsof the world’s population directly seek alternatives to Western medical treatments, which are freefrom side effects, and thus these consumers depend on phytomedicines for primary healthcare.However, an inadvertent consequence of this increased demand is that the occurrence of manymedicinal and aromatic plants has become threatened due to their very small wild population size,narrow distribution area, habitat specifcity, and destructive way of harvesting; only a few studieshave been undertaken on their conservation, ecology, and pharmacognosy of individual MAPs.The topics of interest of this book include biodiversiy, biotechnology, ecology, nanotechnology,and pharmacognosy, as well as in-situ and ex-situ conservation of aromatic and medicinal plants.Since plants are often very geographically isolated, this book also explores the aboriginal medicinetraditions of countries and cultures. Hopefully, this book will prove to be a great source of informationon recent research trends in medicinal plants and aromatics.