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Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants (Paperback)
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Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants (Paperback)
Series: Traditional Herbal Medicines for Modern Times
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The increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus world-wide is an
issue of major socio-economic concern. Scientific interest in
plant-derived medicine is steadily rising, yet there is often a
wide disparity in the caliber of information available. A detailed
compilation of scientific information from across the globe,
Traditional Medicines for Modern Times: Antidiabetic Plants
highlights the potential role of dietary and medicinal plant
materials in the prevention, treatment, and control of diabetes and
its complications. The book not only describes plants traditionally
used to treat diabetes, but evaluates the scientific studies on
these plants and describes in vitro, in vivo, and clinical methods
for their investigation. It examines the theory that changes in
dietary patterns from traditional plant foodstuffs containing
beneficial components, to richer, more processed "junk" food is
responsible for the increased prevalence of diabetes worldwide. The
book begins with an introduction to the disease diabetes mellitus
written by a consultant physician and an up-to-date, detailed
summary table and discussion of scientifically screened
antidiabetic plants compiled by authors from the Jodrell
Laboratories, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. The next chapters
provide an outline of clinical, in vivo, and in vitro methods for
assessing antidiabetic activity of plant materials, followed by
descriptions of traditional plant remedies used in Asia, the
Americas, Africa, Europe, and Australia written by an international
group of authors active in antidiabetic plant research. The final
chapters emphasize the role of particular phytochemical groups in
the treatment or prevention of diabetes. By documentingboth
traditional and scientifically derived knowledge, Traditional
Medicines for Modern Times: Antidiabetic Plants brings us closer to
the translation of traditional knowledge into new methods for
treatment of this important disease.
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