Herbal Medicines as a Rational Alternative for Treatment of Human Diseases
Herbal medicines (HMs) are receiving considerable attention as the complementary drugs throughout the world due to their cost effectiveness, low toxicity, and therapeutic potential against wide range of human illness. These plants possess a wide range of
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tanical Leads for Drug Discovery
Botanical Leads for Drug Discovery
Bikarma Singh Editor
Botanical Leads for Drug Discovery
Editor Bikarma Singh Plant Sciences (Biodiversity and Applied Botany Division) CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
ISBN 978-981-15-5916-7 ISBN 978-981-15-5917-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5917-4
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I dedicate this book Botanical Leads for Drug Discovery to my parents (Shri Jammu Singh and Smt. Sam Devi), for giving me high class education and being an excellent first Guru; my wife Manisha Singh and children (Aryan Singh and Aditi Singh) for being patience at home. I express my deepest gratitude to my mentors Prof. S.K. Borthakur, Dr.(Mrs.) Sandhya Jyoti Phukan and Prof. Saroj Kanta Barik for guiding me with knowledge and to all the authors for their top-class research contributions. Dr. Bikarma Singh Editor and Senior Scientist, CSIR-IIIM
Preface
Active botanical ingredients, sometimes called phytopharmaceuticals, are prime requirement for herbal formulations and drug preparations. Discovering drugs or developing an ingredient for pharmaceuticals is all about integration of scientific disciplines. Usually, developing a new drug is a serious challenge as it involves time for research trials and the whole processes is very expensive, sometimes huge investments are required, for example, more than 1 billion US$ fo
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