Natural Medicines

Clinical Efficacy, Safety and Quality
Herausgeber: Ghosh, Dilip; Mukherjee, Pulok K

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book serves as an essential guide for individuals researching natural medicines, and industry employees in areas including drug development, pharmacology, natural products chemistry, clinical efficacy, ethnopharmacology, pharmacognosy, phytotherapy, phyto-technology and herbal science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 183mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1247g
• ISBN-13: 9781138733060
• ISBN-10: 1138733067
• Artikelnr.: 57496786

Autorenporträt

Dilip Ghosh, PhD, FACN is an international speaker, facilitator and author and professionally associated with SOHO-Flordis International (SFI), Australia; Honorary Ambassador, Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI), University of Western Sydney. With more than 20 years of experience in both pharmaceutical and food-nutrition industries, he is one of the pioneer researchers in the evaluation of the health claim opportunities of potential functional food ingredients and complementary medicines through an evaluation of the current scientific evidence base and related claims, and provides commentary on gaps in science including potential requirements for research such as human studies. Pulok K. Mukherjee, PhD is the Director of the School of Natural Product Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His research/academic work highlights traditional medicine inspired by drug discovery from Indian medicinal plants to make them available from 'Farm to Pharma'. His research includes validation of medicinal plants from India systems of medicine, their formulation and standardization, which are useful bio-prospecting tools for the traditional medicine based drug discovery programme.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Quality and Chemistry. 1. Efficacy, Quality, Safety and Toxicity
of Herbal Medicine: Safeguarding Public Health. 2. Standardisation and
Quality Control of Herbal Medicines: From Raw Materials to Finished
Products. 3. Structure-Function Elucidation of Flavonoids by Modern
Technologies: Role in Management of Diabetes and Cancer. 4. Tanshinone
Diterpenes: Chemistry and Multifunctional Biological Activities. 5.
Bacognize: A Standardised Extract of Bacopa monnieri. 6. Role of Process
Standardisation in Development of Natural Products. 7. Biomarkers for
Quality Control of Chinese Tonifying Herbs and Herbal Health Products. 8.
Nelumbo nucifera: Pharmacological Profile, Metabolite Profiling and
Therapeutic Uses. Section II: Safety. 9. Safety and Toxicity of Medicinal
Plants: Concerns and Overview. 10. Approaches to Safety Evaluation of
Botanicals and Processed Botanicals Known in Traditional Knowledge.
Section III: Regulation. 11. Korea's Health Functional Food Classification.
12. Phytopharmaceuticals: Unique Regulatory Category with Immense Potential
for Medical Unmet Needs. Section IV: Clinical Efficacy. 13. Cranberry
Proanthocyanidins (PACs) in Bacterial Anti-Adhesion. 14. The Promise for
Alzheimer's Disease Treatment: Bioactive Compounds. 15. ENZOGENOL Pine Bark
Extract: From an Ancient Remedy to a Natural Neurotherapeutic. 16. Current
State of Clinical Translation of Natural Cardioprotective Agents. 17.
Herbal Products in Antihypertensive Therapy: Potentialities and Challenges
- A Brazilian Perspective. 18. Role of the Ayurvedic Medicinal Herb Bacopa
monnieri in Child and Adolescent Populations. 19. Recent Insights on the
Role of Natural Medicines in Immunostimulation. 20. Clinical Trial Protocol
for Herbal Drugs: Perspectives of India. 21. Nanotechnology and Anti-Ageing
Skin Care. Section V: Reviews. 22. Anredera cordifolia (Ten.) v. Steenis: A
New Emerging Cure with Polypharmacological Effects. 23. Medicinal
Properties of Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe). 24. Single Herb to
Single Phytochemical-Based Therapy for Diabetes Mellitus. 25.
Phytochemical, Pharmacological and Therapeutic Profile of Bacopa monnieri:
A Prospective Complementary Medicine. 26. Natural Medicines: Categories,
Comebacks and Catalysts. 27. Management of Diabetes and Hyperlipidaemia by
Natural Medicines. 28. Globalisation of Traditional Medicine under the
Modern Medicine Portfolio. 29. Cannabis and Cannabinoids: A Journey from an
Ancient Belief to the Fore. 30. Shifts in Global Healthcare. 31. Ayurveda:
Evidence-Based Approach for Drug Development. 32. Natural Medicine:
Potential in Public Healthcare and Research with Specific Focus on
Ayurveda.