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John Richard Stepp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ethnoecology and Medicinal Plants of the Highland Maya
2018Co-Authors: John Richard SteppAbstract:Ethnoecology and Medicinal Plants of the highland Maya , Ethnoecology and Medicinal Plants of the highland Maya , کتابخانههای دانشگاه کردستان
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Ethnoecology and Medicinal Plants of the Highland Maya: An Introduction
Ethnobiology, 2018Co-Authors: John Richard SteppAbstract:Plants play a central role in human existence and Medicinal Plants, in particular, have allowed for the continued survival of the species. As the field of medical ethnobotany has grown, many studies have indicated that indigenous peoples have a comprehensive, empirically based knowledge of their environments. There has been much less research on the interaction between cultural knowledge and the use of Medicinal Plants in relation to the biophysical environment. This chapter introduces a long term ethnoecological study of Medicinal Plants of the Highland Maya in Chiapas with three main objectives: (1) identifying which Medicinal Plants are actually used; (2) determining the role of environmental variation on use and selection of Medicinal Plants; and (3) identifying which habitats are preferred for Medicinal plant procurement. A theoretical background and framework is presented. Issues of prior informed consent are discussed along with a summary of subsequent chapters.
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Medicinal Plants, Human Ecology and Biochemical Ecology
Ethnobiology, 2018Co-Authors: John Richard SteppAbstract:A theoretical basis is provided for the main findings, drawing from human ecology and biological ecology. Highland Maya overwhelmingly favor human modified environments for Medicinal Plants. Explanatory factors related to human ecology are discussed. Medicinal Plants need to be abundant and accessible and Plants that are close by are preferred. A Medicinal flora also needs to be efficacious and biologically active. Ecological and biochemical theories and findings in relation to distribution and concentration of plant secondary compounds explain why Plants from disturbed areas would tend to be more bioactive.
Chandra Prakash Kala - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Medicinal Plants conservation and enterprise development
Medicinal Plants - International Journal of Phytomedicines and Related Industries, 2009Co-Authors: Chandra Prakash KalaAbstract:The knowledge of Medicinal Plants, historically, was occupied by a few specialized herbal healers in rural communities; thus much of their use was observed as being primary of local interest. For past couple of decades, Medicinal Plants have been increasingly recognized for their role as not only for health care but also for improving the economic status. This ongoing trend towards increasing commercialization has resulted in overharvesting of some economically important Medicinal plant species, many of which has become rare, endangered and threatened. Since the Medicinal Plants form an important health commodity, sustainable utilization and conservation of this valuable bio-resource is an urgent need of hour. India is one of the largest countries in Asia, which has the richest arrays of well-known Medicinal Plants and alternative medical systems including Ayurveda. A large number of manpower from herb collectors/farmers to industry is involved in the Medicinal Plants sector, which is largely unregulated. Realizing the continuous erosion in the traditional knowledge of many valuable Plants for medicine in the past and the renewal interest at present, the need existed to review the various issues associated with the Medicinal Plants, especially the sustainable development of the Medicinal Plants sector. The present review mainly deals with the availability of Medicinal Plants resources and their conservation in India along with constraints in Medicinal Plants enterprise development and initiatives taken up by the Govt. of India to mitigate the constraints and strengthen the Medicinal Plants sector. On the basis of this review and existing information, recommendations are made for the benefits and development of the Medicinal Plants sector in India.
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Medicinal Plants facilitation centres
2008Co-Authors: Chandra Prakash Kala, Bikram Singh SajwanAbstract:One of the important activities of the National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), an apex body of the Government of India, is area extension of Medicinal Plants cultivation programmes through training and education. Medicinal Plants being new to the farming system, their farming requires an effective institutional mechanism for technology transfer on crops and varieties that can be grown in an agro-climatic zone. Besides, information is required to transfer on the soil suitability for a particular crop, cultivation practices, sources of seeds and quality planting material, market information on prices, ‘mandies’, traders, manufacturers and demand assessment of different species.
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Developing the Medicinal Plants sector in northern India: challenges and opportunities
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2006Co-Authors: Chandra Prakash Kala, Pitamber Prasad Dhyani, Bikram Singh SajwanAbstract:The Medicinal properties of plant species have made an outstanding contribution in the origin and evolution of many traditional herbal therapies. These traditional knowledge systems have started to disappear with the passage of time due to scarcity of written documents and relatively low income in these traditions. Over the past few years, however, the Medicinal Plants have regained a wide recognition due to an escalating faith in herbal medicine in view of its lesser side effects compared to allopathic medicine in addition the necessity of meeting the requirements of medicine for an increasing human population. Through the realization of the continuous erosion of traditional knowledge of Plants used for medicine in the past and the renewed interest at the present time, a need existed to review this valuable knowledge of Medicinal Plants with the purpose of developing Medicinal Plants sectors across the different states in India. Our major objectives therefore were to explore the potential in Medicinal Plants resources, to understand the challenges and opportunities with the Medicinal Plants sector, and also to suggest recommendations based upon the present state of knowledge for the establishment and smooth functioning of the Medicinal Plants sector along with improving the living standards of the underprivileged communities. The review reveals that northern India harbors a rich diversity of valuable Medicinal Plants, and attempts are being made at different levels for sustainable utilization of this resource in order to develop the Medicinal Plants sector.
Biljana Bauer Petrovska - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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historical review of Medicinal Plants usage
Pharmacognosy Reviews, 2012Co-Authors: Biljana Bauer PetrovskaAbstract:Healing with Medicinal Plants is as old as mankind itself. The connection between man and his search for drugs in nature dates from the far past, of which there is ample evidence from various sources: written documents, preserved monuments, and even original plant medicines. Awareness of Medicinal Plants usage is a result of the many years of struggles against illnesses due to which man learned to pursue drugs in barks, seeds, fruit bodies, and other parts of the Plants. Contemporary science has acknowledged their active action, and it has included in modern pharmacotherapy a range of drugs of plant origin, known by ancient civilizations and used throughout the millennia. The knowledge of the development of ideas related to the usage of Medicinal Plants as well as the evolution of awareness has increased the ability of pharmacists and physicians to respond to the challenges that have emerged with the spreading of professional services in facilitation of man's life.
Liu Yu-tan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Research Progress on Medicinal Plants Breeding
Journal of Anhui Agricultural Sciences, 2014Co-Authors: Liu Yu-tanAbstract:Research progress on Medicinal Plants breeding in recent years was reviewed,and prospects of Medicinal Plants breeding were discussed.
Abhishek Gupta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Phytochemistry of Medicinal Plants - Phytochemistry of Medicinal Plants
1995Co-Authors: Mamta Saxena, Jyoti Saxena, Rajeev Nema, Dharmendra Singh, Abhishek GuptaAbstract:Medicinal Plants are a rich source of bioactive phytochemicals or bionutrients. Studies carried out during the past 2–3 decades have shown that these phytochemicals have an important role in preventing chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and coronary heart disease. The major classes of phytochemicals with disease-preventing functions are dietary fibre, antioxidants, anticancer, detoxifying agents, immunity-potentiating agents and neuropharmacological agents. Each class of these functional agents consists of a wide range of chemicals with differing potency. Some of these phytochemicals have more than one function. There is, however, much scope for further systematic research in screening Indian Medicinal Plants for these phytochemicals and assessing their potential in protecting against different types of diseases.
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phytochemistry of Medicinal Plants
Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 1995Co-Authors: Mamta Saxena, Jyoti Saxena, Rajeev Nema, Dharmendra Singh, Abhishek GuptaAbstract:Medicinal Plants are a rich source of bioactive phytochemicals or bionutrients. Studies carried out during the past 2–3 decades have shown that these phytochemicals have an important role in preventing chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes and coronary heart disease. The major classes of phytochemicals with disease-preventing functions are dietary fibre, antioxidants, anticancer, detoxifying agents, immunity-potentiating agents and neuropharmacological agents. Each class of these functional agents consists of a wide range of chemicals with differing potency. Some of these phytochemicals have more than one function. There is, however, much scope for further systematic research in screening Indian Medicinal Plants for these phytochemicals and assessing their potential in protecting against different types of diseases.
