Herbal Medicines
A Boon for Healthy Human Life
- 1st Edition - March 24, 2022
- Latest edition
- Editors: Hifzur Siddique, Maryam Sarwat
- Language: English
Herbal Medicines: A Boon for Healthy Human Life provides a comprehensive overview of the role of herbal medicines for treating a broad variety of human diseases, from neurol… Read more
Herbal Medicines: A Boon for Healthy Human Life provides a comprehensive overview of the role of herbal medicines for treating a broad variety of human diseases, from neurological disorders to cancer and major disorders such as infectious diseases, metabolic disorders, and more. Each chapter summarizes the current state and future direction of the use of herbal medicines against multiple diseases from a translational point-of-view, making this reference a valuable source of information for a large audience, including researchers and healthcare providers interested in the field of herbal remedies.
- Discusses essential evidence-based information about herbal medicines
- Provides an update to new discoveries and recent advances on the use of herbal medicines to treat multiple human diseases
- Includes information on clinical studies and covers all major medicinal compounds, including alkaloids, glycosides, polyphenols and terpenes
Researchers, graduate students and health care professionals interested in the general field of herbal remedies. Researchers working in natural product drug discovery, plant scientists, pharmacists and chemists
1. Herbal drugs and alternative methods used to treat Neurodegenerative diseases.
2. Review on correlations between depression and nutritional status of elderly patients.
3. Herbal Medicines for Alzheimer's Disease
4. Herbal remedies against Huntington's disease: preclinical evidences and future directions
5. Herbal Medicine for Mood Disorder
ORAL HEALTH
6. Leveraging Microbicidal and Immunosuppressive Potential of Herbal Medicine in Oral Diseases
METABOLIC DISORDERS AND OVERALL HEALTH
7. Herbal Medicines for the Treatment of Metabolic Disorders
8. Herbal Medicines for Diabetes: Insights and recent advancement
9. Diabetes, a Metabolic Disorder: Herbal medicines on rescue
10. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Herbal Medicine
11. Traditional Herbal Medicines as Bio resource and Health Security
12. Traditional Nutritional and Health Practices to Tackle the Lifestyle Diseases
13. Impact of Pre-Biotics and Probiotics Consumption on Human Health
14. Ethnic foods and concentrates: Its role in health protection
SKIN DISORDERS
15. Herbal Medicines and Skin Disorders
16. Herbal Medicine and common dermatological diseases
17. Role of Herbal Products as Therapeutic Agents Against Ultraviolet Radiation-Induced Skin Disorders.
18. On Bioactive Compounds and the Endophyte community in Medicinal Plants: Bioprocessing Nature's Abundance for Skin Disorder Treatment
REPRODUCTIVE DISORDERS
19. Future of Herbal Medicines in assisted reproduction
20. Herbal Medicine to Cure Male Reproductive Dysfunction
21. Polycystic Ovarian syndrome: causes and Therapies by herbal medicine
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
22. Emerging alternative vaccines and treatment strategies for tuberculosis
23. Role of Herbal medicines in combating antibiotic resistance in infectious diseases
24. Ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological approaches used in the management of tuberculosis
CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
25. Targeting fibrosis by herbal medicine to prevent heart failure
26. Natural Antioxidant Therapy in Oxidative Stress induced Myocardial Ischemia
CANCER
27. Targeting metabolism with herbal therapy: a preventative approach towards cancer
28. Uses of Herbal Medicines in Palliative Care of Cancer Patients
29. Effect of Amygdalin and dichloroacetate on human breast cancer
30. Herbal Medicines and Bladder Cancer
31. Cannabis-derived compounds for cancer treatment
CONCERN
32. Do we really fathom the molecular biology data resulting from our studies on traditional herbal medicine?
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: March 24, 2022
- Language: English
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Hifzur Siddique
Dr. Siddique is working as a Senior Assistant Professor at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, India, and got post-doctoral trainings at the University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota & University of S. California, USA. His research specializations are Cancer Biology, Pharmacology, and Toxicology. He is now the Programme Director of Molecular Cancer Genetics and Translational Research program at AMU. He is, so far, published more than 75 original research papers in journals like Nature Communications, Hepatology, Stem Cells, Clinical Cancer Research, Cancer Research, Genes and Cancer, Seminars in Cancer Biology, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, Dalton Transections, Cor-ordination Chemistry Reviews, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, etc. He is the recipient of several academic awards such SBUR-Young Scientist Travel Award, USA; IABS-Outstanding Cancer Research Award, India; SPER-Innovative Researcher Award, India; “AEDS-Distinguish Scientist Award,” India, etc. He is a member of several scientific societies/associations such as the American Association of Cancer Research, National Academy Sciences, India, Indian Association for Cancer Research, etc. He regularly delivers invited talks, filed four patents, and 26-awards/honors to his credit. Further, he serves as an editorial member of five Journals and reviewers of more than 50 reputed international journals. Multiple Government Agencies of India support his ongoing research.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Assistant Professor, Molecular Cancer Genetics and Translational Research Lab, Aligarh Muslim University, IndiaMS
Maryam Sarwat
Dr. Maryam Sarwat is an Indian Citizen, working as an Associate Professor in the Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Noida. She has obtained her Ph. D. in 2007 and completed postdoctoral research at ICGEB, New Delhi. She has received several research grants from various R & D agencies such as DST, DBT, CCRUM and SERB in India. She has presented her findings in scientific conferences in various countries like Germany, Czech Republic and France etc. Dr. Sarwat has mentored six PhD and fifteen Masters’ students. She has more than 55 international publications in reputed journals and three patents to her credit. She is the recipient of the prestigious “Scientist of the Year Award” in 2015. Dr. Sarwat has published two volumes of “Stress Signaling in Plants, Genomics and Proteomics Perspective” with Springer Nature in 2013 and 2017. She has also authored two books with Elsevier entitled ‘Senescence Signaling and Control in Plants’ in 2018 and ‘Saffron: The Age-Old Panacea in a New Light’ in the early 2020. She has also published the title ‘Environment and Human Health’ through King Abdul Aziz University Press in 2020. Her two volumes on ‘Ethnic Knowledge on Biodiversity, Nutrition and Health Security’ are due for publication by Taylor and Francis in 2021. She has served various international journals as reviewer
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Noida, IndiaRead Herbal Medicines on ScienceDirect