Medicinal Plants of Bangladesh With Chemical Constituents and Uses

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The book, Medicinal Plants of Bangladesh with Chemical Constituents and Uses, authored by professor Dr. Abdul Ghani includes a number of scientific articles and discussions on various aspects of medicinal plants. This book offers an unprecedented collection of vital scientific information for herbal medicine practitioners, pharmacologists, drug developers, medicinal chemists, phytochemists, toxicologists and researchers who want to explore the use of plant materials for medicinal and related purposes. It enlists most of the medicinal plants that grow both naturally and under cultivation or are available as items of commerce in Bangladesh in the form of monographs with their chemical constituents and medicinal uses and other relevant information on their habit, distribution and pharmacological actions. The other items of the book include a chapter on methods of phytochemical screening, a list of the medicinal plants arranged according to diseases and therapeutic uses, and a glossary of some medical terms. It is hoped that the book, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, will serve as a guide book for the scientists involved in phytochemical research for discovering new active chemical substances from plants for development of new drugs and also for the practitioners of both indigenous and other traditional systems of medicine. The methods of phytochemical screening described in Appendix I would be very useful for those who wish to pursue phytochemical and pharmacological research in medicinal plants either to discover new constituents or to confirm their presence in plants not examined so far. The list of the medicinal plants, arranged according to diseases and therapeutic uses, given in Appendix II, would serve as a very useful to ready guide for those scientists who would like to undertake biochemical and clinical tests on the plants claimed to have therapeutic effects against specific ailments. It is thus hoped that this book would also be very useful to the teachers and students of botany, pharmacy, chemistry, biochemistry and those of modern and traditional systems of medicine.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Abdul Ghani

Dr. Abdul Ghani is a Professor of Pharmacy at Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. For the last 37 years he has been teaching and pursuing research in phytochemistry of Medicinal plants at home and abroad. Professor Ghani is a National Fellow of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh and his biography has been included in the MARQUIS’ Who’s Who in the World Register. After obtaining his M. Sc. Degree in Botany (Plant Taxonomy) with a First class, Professor Ghani joined the Pharmacy Department of Dhaka University in 1965. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Phytochemistry from the Department of Pharmacy of Nottingham University, England, in 1971 and worked there as a Postdoctoral Fellow for one year. Returning home in 1972, Dr. Ghani rejoined the Pharmacy Department of Dhaka University and served there as an Associate Professor and Chairman upto 1977. He then left for Nigeria to work as a Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacognosy & Drug Development of the Pharmacy Faculty of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Coming back home in 1989, Professor Ghani joined the Pharmacy Department of Jahangirnagar University as a Professor and Chairman. Professor Ghani has so far published more than 80 papers and articles and authored 7 books on traditional medicine, pharmacognosy and phytochemistry and other subjects of pharmaceutical interest. He has also participated and presented papers in many national and international seminars and conferences at home and abroad. He has been appointed as the Director of Drugs Administration, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare since 1 April 2002. Born in 1941, Dr. Ghani is the proud father of two daughters and one son.

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Title
Medicinal Plants of Bangladesh With Chemical Constituents and Uses
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Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9845123481
Length
xii+603p., Tables; Plates; References; Index; 25cm.
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#Bangladesh #Medicinal Plants