Intended for universities, industrial pharmaceuticals, biochemists studying natural plant products, chemotherapists, toxicologists, botanists, and anthropologists, this book highlights the role of medicinal plants and traditional remedies in the primary health care of large parts of the world's population. The analysis opens many possibilities for the study and development of new and plant-derived drugs.

Product Description: Although medicinal plants have been used for millenia, plant remedies and traditional medicines have only recently been subject to thorough scientific study. The confirmed resolution of the World Health Organization to ensure, by the year 2000, the attainment of a level of health that will permit people everywhere to lead a socially and economically productive life has led to increasing recognition of the role of traditional medicine in reaching that goal...read more