Pharmacological Assays of Plant-Based Natural Products

This volume provides information on how to select and screen plants for their medicinal properties. It describes phytopharmacological techniques for extracting and qualitatively and quantitatively analyzing a plant’s phytochemicals. After a detailed in vi

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Parimelazhagan Thangaraj

Pharmacological Assays of PlantBased Natural Products

Progress in Drug Research Volume 71

Series editor K.D. Rainsford, Sheffield Hallam University, Biomedical Research Centre, Sheffield, UK

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/4857

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Parimelazhagan Thangaraj Department of Botany Bharathiar University Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu India

ISSN 0071-786X Progress in Drug Research ISBN 978-3-319-26810-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26811-8

ISSN 2297-4555

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ISBN 978-3-319-26811-8

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To Bioprospecting Research Team

Foreword

The health benefits and economic value of traditionally used medicinal plants are getting increasing attention in the past few decades. This is evident from the increase in the usage of herb-based drugs for the treatment of various diseases. Herbal medicines are prepared from live or dried plant resources and contain hundreds to thousands of interrelated active compounds. Science is beginning to demonstrate that the safety and effectiveness of herbs are often related to the synergy of its many constituents. The effectiveness thus relies on the multiple pathways of how a drug from plants would counteract on a particular disease. To a large extent, scientists and researchers all over the world have excelled in proving the exact mechanism behind the therapeutic property of herbal medicines and many are in the pipeline. This is the right time where this book would engage young researchers to have some novel approaches towards identifying cost-effective medicine from plants with prime concern to their conservation