Phytochemistry of Medicinal Plants (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)

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."

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, 29
Release date:	2001
First published:	1995
Editors:	John T. Arnason • Rachel Mata • John T. Romeo
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	364
Edition:	1995 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-45181-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Biochemistry > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > Plant physiology > General
LSN:	0-306-45181-6
Barcode:	9780306451812

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