Broschiertes Buch

Saffron

The Age-Old Panacea in a New Light

Herausgegeben: Sarwat, Maryam; Sumaiya, Sajida

Beschreibung

Saffron: The Age-Old Panacea in a New Light is the first book to detail the functions and effect of saffron in medicinal situations. This book explores the medicinal aspects of saffron and the effect saffron imparts on various diseases of the central nervous system, cardiovascular system, digestive system, locomotor system, urogenital system, eye, skin, and immune system, along with their mechanism of action. This perpetual bulb found mainly in Asia and Europe, Iran, India and Mediterranean countries has been shown to reduce seizures, delay convulsions, and as a neuroprotective agent against cerebral ischemia, brain damage, and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

In addition, it also reduces depression, hypnosis and anxiety and enhances learning and memory skills.

Autor

Dr. Maryam Sarwat is an Indian Citizen, working as an Associate Professor in the Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Noida. She has obtained her Ph. D. in 2007 and completed postdoctoral research at ICGEB, New Delhi. She has received several research grants from various R & D agencies such as DST, DBT, CCRUM and SERB in India. She has presented her findings in scientific conferences in various countries like Germany, Czech Republic and France etc. Dr. Sarwat has mentored six PhD and fifteen Masters' students. She has more than 55 international publications in reputed journals and three patents to her credit. She is the recipient of the prestigious "Scientist of the Year Award? in 2015. Dr. Sarwat has published two volumes of "Stress Signaling in Plants, Genomics and Proteomics Perspective? with Springer Nature in 2013 and 2017. She has also authored two books with Elsevier entitled 'Senescence Signaling and Control in Plants' in 2018 and 'Saffron: The Age-Old Panacea in a New Light' in the early 2020. She has also published the title 'Environment and Human Health' through King Abdul Aziz University Press in 2020. Her two volumes on 'Ethnic Knowledge on Biodiversity, Nutrition and Health Security' are due for publication by Taylor and Francis in 2021. She has served various international journals as reviewer

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Press / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2018-0-03979-1
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 14mm x 189mm x 235mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780128184622
• Artikelnr.: 57910642