Medicinal Plants

Contains more than 400 plant species which are arranged alphabetically by scientific name, followed by the common name. This book includes such topics as major constituents (active ingredients) and medicinal values of plants, toxicity or hazardous components, essential oils, value-added products and possible uses, and cultivation and harvesting.
Medicinal Plants: Culture, Utilization and Phytopharmacology covers over 400 species. Each chapter gathers valuable information from a wide variety of sources, and supplies it to the user in convenient table format, arranged alphabetically by scientific name, followed by the common name. Data topics include: major constituents (active ingredients) and medicinal values of plants; toxicity or hazardous components; essential oils; value-added products and possible uses; cultivation and harvesting; diseases and insects found in medicinal plants. Three appendices (alphabetical listing of plants by common name, followed by the scientific name; essential oils and their derivation; active ingredients and their sources) provide handy cross-references to the Tables.