Modern Phytomedicine

Turning Medicinal Plants into Drugs

Ahmad, Iqbal / Aqil, Farrukh / Owais, Mohammad (Editor)

1. Edition September 2006
XX, 384 Pages, Hardcover
51 Pictures
55 tables
Handbook/Reference Book

ISBN: 978-3-527-31530-7

Wiley-VCH, Weinheim

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In this timely and original handbook plant pharmacologists from around the world demonstrate the potentials and pitfalls involved in turning traditionally used medicinal plants into safe and effective drugs. A valuable source of otherwise unpublished information.

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This timely and original handbook paves the way to success in plant-based drug development, systematically addressing the issues facing a pharmaceutical scientist who wants to turn a plant compound into a safe and effective drug. Plant pharmacologists from around the world demonstrate the potentials and pitfalls involved, with many of the studies and experiments reported here published for the first time. The result is a valuable source of information unavailable elsewhere.

Bioactive Phytocompounds (BPs): New Approach on Modern Phytoscience
Quality Control, Screening, Toxicity and Regulations of Herbal Drugs
Herbal Medicine: Prospects and Constraints
Bioactive Phytocompounds and Products Traditionally used in Japan
Plant Extracts used to manage Bacterial, Fungal and Parasitic Infections in Southern Africa
Biological and Toxicological Properties of Moroccan Plant Extracts
Anti-MRSA and Anti-VRE Activities of Phytoalexin and Phytoncide Isolated from Tropical Plants
Methods for Testing the Antimicrobial Activity of Extracts
Targeted Screening of Bioactive Plant Extracts and Phytocompounds
Activity of Plant Extracts and Plant-derived Compounds against Drug-resistant Microorganisms
Alternative Holistic Medicinal Approach in Total Management of Hepatic Disorders
Traditional Plant and Herbal Remedies Used in the Treatment of Diarrhoeal Disease
Mutagenicity and Antimutagenic Potentials of Plant Extracts and Phytocompound
Potential of Plant-derived Products in the Treatment of Mycobacterial Infections
Ethnomedicinal Antivirals: Scope and Opportunity
Immunomodulatory Effects of Phytocompounds
Use of Liposomal Delivery System for Herbal-based Therapeutics

"...Primariliy, this book is dedicated, but also highly recommended, to students, teachers and researchers enganged in universities, R&D insitutions, pharmaceutical or herbal industry, as well as health organizations."
Advances in Food Sciences, 07/2007

Iqbal Ahmad is a senior lecturer of agricultural microbiology at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India, and Principal Investigator of the Medicinal Plants Research Project of the University Grant Commission, New Delhi, India. A graduate of AMU, he worked as a research scientist at the Himalaya Drug Company before moving to the AMU's Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. He has so far screened more than 150 traditional Indian medicinal plants for their biological activities and potential prospection.

Farrukh Aqil is Project Fellow working on the major research project on medicinal plants at the AMU Department of Agricultural Microbiology. His current work includes biological activities of Indian medicinal plants against MDR bacteria, antioxidants, and the antimutagenicity potential of bioactive plant extracts.

Mohammad Owais currently holds a faculty position at the Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit at Aligarh Muslim University, India. He trained at CDRI, Lucknow and IMTECH, Chandigarh, and worked during his post doctoral training with Dr. R. C. Gallo's group at the NIH, USA. His present work is focusing on the screening of various herbal drugs for their potential to treat drug resistant infections, and developing and applying drug delivery systems to herbal drugs to assess the efficacy, stability and toxicity in animal models.

I. Ahmad, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India; F. Aqil, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India; M. Owais, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India