Herbs Spices And Medicinal Plants Recent Advances In Botany Horticulture And Pharmacology 3

As in previous volumes, readers will find a multidisciplinary forum for communicating knowledge related to the botany, horticulture, and pharmacology of herbs, spices, and medicinal plants. While magical and mystical powers have been associated with these plants through the ages, continued investigations in such areas as production, nomenclature, uses, chemical constitution, and dynamics help elucidate the affiliated chemical and physical processes that contribute to their unique flavor, fragrance, pharmacological, and other bioactive properties. This collection of articles examines the potential of natural products as pesticides, the richness of the Chinese Pharmacopeia, the similarities of Eastern Asian and Eastern North American medicinal plants, the use of borage as a source of gamma linolenic acid, and the botanical nomenclature of medicinal plants.

An introduction to the scientific literature on herbs, spices, and medicinal plants. Chemotaxonomic aspects of essential oils. Botanical noenclature of culinary herbs and potherbs. Biochemistry of monoterpenes ans sesquiterpenes of the esssntial oils. Polyphenolic componunds winth biological and pharmacological. Production ecology of secondary plant products. Medicinal plants of Israel: an ethnobotanical survey.