TY - BOOK AU - Wiart,Christophe TI - Medicinal plants of Bangladesh and West Bengal: botany, natural products, & ethnopharmacology T2 - Natural products chemistry of global plants SN - 9781351737111 AV - RS179 .W532 2019eb U1 - 615.3/21095492 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Boca Raton, Florida PB - CRC Press KW - Medicinal plants KW - Bangladesh KW - India KW - West Bengal KW - Materia medica, Vegetable KW - MEDICAL / Pharmacology KW - bisacsh KW - SCIENCE / Chemistry / General KW - SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany N2 - MedicinalPlants of Bangladesh and West Bengalis a complete compendium. It provides the scientific name, classification, local name(s), historical background, local medicinal uses, botanical description, chemical constituents, pharmacological activity and toxicology of more than 100 medicinal spices used in Bengal. Chemical structures of active constituents are provided as well as numerous references. This book is an indispensabletool for researchers, as well as graduates in various disciplines, including pharmacy, pharmacology, medicine, biotechnology, nutrition, cosmetology and drug development. It is alsosuitable for anyone who islooking for natural products as leads to be developed in therapeutics, functional nutrition or cosmetology. Focuses on a group of herbs with economic importance - the spices. These herbs demonstrate the richness of chemical diversity and potential pharmacological applications Features field photos with local healers, markets and mode of preparation as well as providing a complete monograph for each plant Discusses the collection and observation of each medicinal spice and presents the ethnopharmacology recorded by the author in Bengal Provides a wealth of scientific information on medicinal spices from an expert in the field Fills an important niche due to the increasing global interests in natural foods and botanical drugs UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315186443 UR - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf ER -