Medicinal and aromatic plants : healthcare and industrial applications / Tariq Aftab, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, editors.

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Medicinal Plants and Herbal Drugs: An Overview -- Secondary Metabolites in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs): Potent Molecules in Nature's Arsenal to Fight Human Diseases -- Biodiversity, Management and Sustainable Use of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Resources -- Bioactive Secondary Metabolites of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants and Their Disease-Fighting Properties -- Potential Uses of Bioactive Compounds of Medicinal Plants and Their Mode of Action in Several Human Diseases -- Understanding the Mechanistic Functioning of Bioactive Compounds in Medicinal Plants -- Nutraceutical Potential of Herbs and Aromatic Plants of Himalayan Region -- Phytochemistry, Pharmacology and Toxicity of Medicinal Plants -- Amaranthus caudatus L. as a Potential Bioresource for Nutrition and Health -- Antidiabetic Property of Aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis) and Bitter Melon (Momordica charantia) -- Ethnobotanical Properties and Traditional Uses of Medicinal Plant Abutilon theophrasti Medik -- Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and Toxicity of an Epiphytic Medicinal Shrub Viscum album L. (White Berry Mistletoe) -- Saffron: A Therapeutic and Prophylactic Nutrition for Human Population -- Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and Pharmacokinetics of Phytoestrogens from Red Clover Extract: An Exhaustive Overview -- Roles of Phytometabolites in the Management of Obesity -- Chicory Inulin: A Versatile Biopolymer with Nutritional and Therapeutic Properties -- Medicinal Plant-Derived Antimicrobials' Fight Against Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens -- Biosynthesis of Lemongrass Essential Oil and the Underlying Mechanism for Its Insecticidal Activity -- Multiple-Usage Shrubs: Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Usage and Their Environmental Beneficiations -- Aromatic and Medicinal Plants for Phytoremediation: A Sustainable Approach -- Environmental Pollutants and Their Remediation Using Medicinal and Aromatic Plants -- Toxicity: Its Assessment and Remediation in Important Medicinal Plants -- State-of-the-Art Technologies for Improving the Quality of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants -- System Biology Approach for Functional Analysis of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants -- Synthetic Seed-Mediated Synchronized Multiplication Under In Vitro Conditions: An Efficient Technique for Conservation, Multiplication and Storage of Medicinal Plants -- Use of Secondary Metabolites from Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in the Fragrance Industry -- The Conservation and Utilization of Medicinal Plant Resources -- Medicinal Plant Resources: Threat to Its Biodiversity and Conservation Strategies -- Phytoremediation Potential of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants -- Medico-legal Perspectives of Usage, Commercialization, and Protection of Traditional Drug-Yielding and Essential Oil-Yielding Plants in India.

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Before the concept of history began, humans undoubtedly acquired life benefits by discovering medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) that were food and medicine. Today, a variety of available herbs and spices are used and enjoyed throughout the world and continue to promote good health. The international market is also quite welcoming for MAPs and essential oils. The increasing environment and nature conscious buyers encourage producers to produce high quality essential oils. These consumer choices lead to growing preference for organic and herbal based products in the world market. As the benefits of medicinal and aromatic plants are recognized, these plants will have a special role for humans in the future. Until last century, the production of botanicals relies to a large degree on wild-collection. However, the increasing commercial collection, largely unmonitored trade, and habitat loss lead to an incomparably growing pressure on plant populations in the wild. Therefore, medicinal and aromatic plants are of high priority for conservation. Given the above, we bring forth a comprehensive volume, "Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Healthcare and Industrial Applications," highlighting the various healthcare, industrial and pharmaceutical applications that are being used on these immensely important MAPs and its future prospects. This collection of chapters from the different areas dealing with MAPs caters to the need of all those who are working or have interest in the above topic.