Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants Vol.38 : Essential Oils III and Phytopharmacology
Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Essential oils III: 1. Essential oils and antimicrobial activity/ana Palmeira De Oliveira. 2. Psychopharmacology of essential oils/Sanjib Bhattacharya. 3. Controlled release formulation strategies for essential oils/Sanjib Bhattacharya. 4. A review on Dennettia oil Dennettia tripetala G. Baker/Oyemitan Idris Ajayi. 5. Uncovering the biological activities induced by peppermint or Mentha oil/Darizy F. Silva, Milena R. Reis, Monica M. Almeida, Camila A. Figueiredo, Isac A. Medeiros and Robson C. Veras. 6. Antibacterial activity of thymus pulegioides essential oil and its synergistic potential with antibiotics: a chemometric approach/Dragoljub L. Miladinovic, Budimir S. I lic, Ljiljana C. Miladinovic, Branislava D. Kocic, Vojislav M. Ciric, Vesna P. Stankov-Jovanovic and Olga G. Cvetkovic. 7. Anticancer activity of Boswellia Frankincense essential oil/Mohamed R. Akl and Paul W. Sylvester. 8. Chemical composition and mosquitocidal potential of Mentha spicata Linn. essential oil/M. Govindarajan. 9. A brief review of essential oils and terpenes complexed in cyclodextrins technological approach to improve biological activities/Lucindo Jose Quintans Junior, Adriano Antunes De Souza Araujo, Marcio Roberto Viana Dos Santos, Leonardo Rigoldi Bonjardim, Jullyana De Souza Siqueira Quintans, Juliane Cabral Silva, Xirley Pereira Nunes and Jackson Roberto Guedes Da Silva Almeida. II. Phytopharmacology: 10. Standardization of herbal medicines: challenges still ahead/Gouri Kumar Dash and Mohd. Syafiq Abdullah..... The objective of the volume 38 of Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants is to present the third volume on essential oils together with miscellaneous scientific materials concerning mainly pharmacological properties of medicinal plants, hence the name: essential oils III and phytopharmacology. Its contributors are form 11 countries namely Brazil India, Japan, Nigeria, Malaysia, Mexico, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, USA and Uzbekistan. The volume is the amalgamation of two sections namely essential oils III and Phytopharmacology. The first section has nine chapters that deals with essential oils. The first three general chapters are on antimicrobial, psychopharmacological properties and controlled release formulation strategies of essential oils. The next five chapters are on individual essential oils namely dennettia oil mentha oil thyme oil boswellia oil and spearmint oil. The sixth chapter deals with cyclodextrin complexation of essential oils for improving bioactivity. The second section has eight chapters. The first chapter details the challenges on standardization of herbal medicines. The second chapter describes the role of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria in promoting growth and yield of active constituents of medicinal plants. The effect of olive oil on wound healing is dealt in the third chapter. The fourth chapter describes the implications of neem in treating diabetes mellitus. The fifth chapter presents chemical and pharmacological updates on Piper betel. Use of herbal medicine against microbial infection and resistance are explicated in the sixth chapter. The seventh chapter deals with the antiviral properties of medicinal plants. The last chapter elaborates the supply chain management of India medicinal plants. This composite volume is designed for professionals of interdisciplinary health sciences, food technology, pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacognosy, pharmacology, agriculture, botany, medicine, therapeutics, traditional medicine, complementary and alternative medicine, aromatherapy, herbalism, medical and public health sciences, policy-makers and marketing and economic strategists.
