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Phytochemistry of Medicinal Plants (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Phytochemistry of Medicinal Plants (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
Series: Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, 29
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Phytochemicals from medicinal plants are receiving ever greater
attention in the scientific literature, in medicine, and in the
world economy in general. For example, the global value of
plant-derived pharmaceuticals will reach $500 billion in the year
2000 in the OECD countries. In the developing countries,
over-the-counter remedies and "ethical phytomedicines," which are
standardized toxicologically and clinically defined crude drugs,
are seen as a promising low cost alternatives in primary health
care. The field also has benefited greatly in recent years from the
interaction of the study of traditional ethnobotanical knowledge
and the application of modem phytochemical analysis and biological
activity studies to medicinal plants. The papers on this topic
assembled in the present volume were presented at the annual
meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America, held in
Mexico City, August 15-19, 1994. This meeting location was chosen
at the time of entry of Mexico into the North American Free Trade
Agreement as another way to celebrate the closer ties between
Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The meeting site was the
historic Calinda Geneve Hotel in Mexico City, a most appropriate
site to host a group of phytochemists, since it was the address of
Russel Marker. Marker lived at the hotel, and his famous papers on
steroidal saponins from Dioscorea composita, which launched the
birth control pill, bear the address of the hotel."
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