Glossary of Phytochemicals

EDITOR: Amritpal Singh Saroya
PUBLISHER: Business Horizons
ISBN: 9788190078870
YEAR: 2006 – First Edition
PAGES: 332
SIZE: 18.5 X 24.5 X 2.5 cm.
BINDING: Hard
LANGUAGE: English

ABOUT THE BOOK: The skyrocketing cost of research for therapeutic molecules from purely synthetic chemistry, has prompted the resurgence of interest in traditional herbal medicine. While clinical usage of such herbs has been extensively documented in ancient texts, exhaustive plant profiles are lacking for most plants, especially with regard to phytochemicals and their biosynthetic pathways. This shortage of information, coupled with increasing information demands of modern validation procedures of manufacturers of herbal medicinal products and the demand of increasingly well-informed regulatory authorities worldwide, is putting increasing pressure on scientists and technologists to come up with such information. In addition, researchers involved with ethnobotanical bioprospecting, from the pharmaceutical industry and academic research institutes are also on the lookout for such information.
Towards that end, this book has been compiled to contribute to such a knowledgebase where concise and practical information has been provided on about 1,300 phytochemicals from 850 medicinal plants, most of them being of Indian origin. The unique feature of this book is that to keep it manageable, the coverage has been restricted to those phytochemicals that show promise as a future therapeutic molecule, based on extensive experience of the editor as MD alternative medicine. Information provided on each phytochemical includes, generic name, chemical class, molecular weight and formula, melting point, boiling point, physical form, solubility, CAS number, biological source, biological action and chemical structure with stereochemistry.

ABOUT THE EDITOR: Amritpal Singh Saroya graduated in Ayurvedic Medicine from Dayanand Ayurvedic College, Jalandhar (Punjab) before receiving his Master's degree in Alternative Medicine from Indian Board of Alternative Medicines, Calcutta. He has published various articles in professional journals devoted to Ayurveda and medicinal plants and has written books on Ayurveda and Materia Medica. He has completed Entrepreneur Development Program (EDP) organized by Ministry of Science and Technology (India) and is a member of the Science Advisory Board, U.K. He is a keen participant in medicinal plants conservation methods and is an active member of Biodiversity committee of Chandigarh constituted for preservation of medicinal herbs in Chandigarh region. His major work has been on standardization of extracts of Hypercium perforatum and Allium sativum. He studied the effect of indigenous herbal drug (CT-125) in possible treatment of Psoriasis in the Ayurvedic Wing of Sohana Eye Institute, Mohali. He is presently associated with reputed institutes and pharmaceutical companies dealing with medicinal plants, herbal extracts and phytochemicals.

CONTENTS:
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction to Phytochemicals
Phytochemicals
References
Therapeutic Index
Medicinal Plants Index
About the Editor