J N Govil
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The use of plants as medicines goes back to early man. Certainly the great civilisations of the ancient Chinese, Indians, and North Africans provided written evidence of man's ingenuity in utilising plants for the treatment of a wide variety of diseases. Plants contain some organic compounds which provide definite biochemical action against various diseases on the human body. The curative properties of drugs are due to the presence of complex chemical substances ...
1. Role of medicinal herbs in treatment against Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus MRSA infections/Ben C.L. Chan, Margaret I.P., Clara B.S. Lau, Q.B. Han, Claude Jolivalt, Jean-Marc Paris, Neil E. Rainer Raymond, H. See, K.P. Fung and P.C. Leung. 2. Agrimonia antioxidative effects and perspectives for medicinal application/Joanna Kolodziejczyk Czepas, Marta Lewik Tsirigotis, Joanna Saluk, Izabela Pawlaczyk, Michal Bijak, Barbara Wachowicz and Roman ...
Studies on phytoconstituents from medicinal plants have experienced a great deal of changes during the least century, not only regarding the number f compounds described, but also in the concept of action and mechanism of phytoconsituents itself. Since the drug discovery process increasingly requires the availability of large number of compounds chemicals in nature offers a valuable source, for example, secondary metabolites, previously regarded as waste products ...
In this world of cut-throat competition, everyone wants to be ahead in the race of life, trying to prove him or her better than others. And it is not possible until one builds one''s own individual personality. This book tries to unveil the major contours of personality development. Based on the authors'' own experiences and the philosophy which they have developed by their interaction with others, it gives all-round view of the personality ...
Medicinal plant research has undergone a phenomenol growth during the last few decades and drug therapy based on traditional system of medicine now forms a major aspect of therapeutics. The wide acceptance of the earlier editions (Particularly Glimpses of Plant Research Vols. X & XI published in 1993) over more than a decade suggests that this series fills an important need. The present volume will satisfy this need more effectively. The present series of two ...
The present volume provides an overview on Human genome project, which offers gene therapy, drug therapy and prevention of genetic diseases. Since both plant and animal DNA is made of four nucleotides of adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine, it is no wonder that secondary metabolites of the former (e.g. alkaloids, isoprenoids, flavonoids, glycosides, lignans etc.) become a drug for the latter. Thus reviews on diterpenes of Euphorbiaceae family, Glycyrrhizin, a ...