Albuquerque / Patil / Máthé Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America

Brazil
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-94-024-1552-0
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 5, 486 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World

This volume in the series deals with the major Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) of South America, providing information on major aspects of this specific group of plants on that continent (botany, traditional usage, chemistry, production/collection practices, trade and utilization).  Brazil, in particular, offers an immense amount of biodiversity, including plants with great pharmacological interest and ethno-medicinal importance.  Contributions are from internationally recognized professionals, specialists of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plant domain and have been invited mostly from the members of the International Society for Horticultural Science and International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino

Patil, Umesh

Máthé, Ákos

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.-
PART I. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of South America.-
Chap. 1 South American Biodiversity and Its Potential In Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.- Chap. 2 Chemical diversity and Ethnopharmacology Survey of South American Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Species.-
PART II. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Brazil.-
Chap. 3 Introduction to Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Brazil.- Chap. 4 Medicinal Plants and State Policy in South America: The case of Colonial Brazil.-
PART III. Selected Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Brazil.-
Chap. 5
Achyrocline satureioides
(Lam.) DC.- Chap. 6
Adiantum raddianum
C. Presl.- Chap. 7
Aloysia citriodora
Palau.- Chap. 8
Anemopaegma arvense
(Vell.) Stellfeld ex De Souza.- Chap. 9
Aniba canellila
(Kunth) Mez.- Chap. 10
Baccharis trimera
(Less.) DC.- Chap. 11
Bauhinia forficata
Link.- Chap. 12
Byrsonima intermedia
; A. Juss.- Chap. 13
Caryocar coriaceum
Wittm.- Chap. 14
Clinopodium gilliesii
(Benth.) Kuntze.- Chap. 15
Croton zehntneri
Pax & K. Hoffm.- Chap. 16
Cymbopogon citratus
(DC.) Stapf.- Chap. 17
Dysphania ambrosioides
(L.) Mosyakin & Clemants.- Chap. 18
Echinodorus macrophyllus
(Kunth) Micheli.- Chap. 19
Equisetum giganteum
L.- Chap. 20
Heteropterys tomentosa
A. Juss.- Chap. 21
Himatanthus drasticus
(Mart.) Plumel.- Chap. 22
Justicia pectoralis
Jacq.- Chap. 23
Kalanchoe brasiliensis
Camb. and
Kalanchoe pinnata
(Lamk.) Pers.- Chap. 24
Lantana camara
L.
and Lantana montevidensis
(Spreng.) Briq.- Chap. 25
Lippia alba
(Mill.) N.E.Br. ex Britton & P.Wilson.- Chap. 26
Lonchocarpus araripensis
Benth. (Fabaceae).- Chap. 27
Lychnophora pinaster
Mart.- Chap. 28
Marrubium vulgare
L.- Chap. 29
Maytenus ilicifolia
Mart. ex Reissek.- Chap. 30
Mikania glomerata
Spreng. &
Mikania laevigata
Sch.Bip. ex Baker.- Chap. 31
Mimosa tenuiflora
(Willd.) Poir.- Chap. 32
Oxalis adenophylla
Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.- Chap. 33
Phyllanthus niruri
L.- Chap. 34
Pluchea carolinensis
(Jacq.) G. Don.- Chap. 35
Polygonum punctatum
Elliott.- Chap. 36
Ptychopetalum olacoides
Benth.- Chap. 37
Punica granatum
L.- Chap. 38
Schinopsis brasiliensis
Engl.- Chap. 39
Stryphnodendron adstringens
(Mart.) Coville.- Chap. 40
Tabebuia avellanedae
Lorentz ex Griseb.- Chap. 41
Uncaria tomentosa
(Willd. ex Schult.) DC. and Uncaria guianensis (Aubl.) J.F. Gmell.- Chap. 42
Valeriana carnosa
Sm.- Chap. 43
Ximenia americana
L.

Über Autor(innen)

Ákos Máthé
, Professor and Head of the Department of Botany, West-Hungarian University Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, Hungary He is the Chair of the section of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the International Society of Horticulture Science. He is Vice President of the International Council of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (member of IUBS) and President of the Hungariuan Horticultural Society. He is former editor of Herba Hungarica, Acta Agronomica Hungaric and presently editor of ICMAP Newsletter, member of the boar of editors of Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Haworth, Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology. His main research areas include botany and ecophysiology of medicinal and aromatic plants, diversification of horticultural production.
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque
 is graduate at Biological Sciences from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1993), master's at Plant Biology (Taxonomy and Ethnobotany)from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1996) and PhD at Plant Biology (Ethnobotany) from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2001). Currently he is professor of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil) where he coordinates the Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution of Social-Ecological Systems (LEA). He was presidente of the Brazilian Society of Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology (2005-2008). He acts in the areas of ecological anthropology, ethnobotany, biodiversity conservation, applied botany, ethnopharmacology and natural products. He has a special interest to the comprehension of the factors that modulate the relation between people and biota on the interface of ecology and evolutive processes. He is member of editorial board of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Etnomedicine (Deputy Editor), Economic Botany (Associate Editor) and  Ethnobiology and Conservation (co-Editor in Chief).
Umesh Patil
 has completed his PhD from Dr H S Gour Vishwavidyalaya (University), Sagar and Postdoctoral studies from Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Currently he is serving as Professor of Pharmacognosy and General Secretary to Indian Society of Pharmacognosy (ISP). He is Editor of Indian Journal of Natural Products and News Letters of ISP and ICMAP. He has been serving as Editorial Board Member of many reputed journals. His area of specialization is Herbal Drug Technology, Ethnopharmacology and Phytomedicines. He is the recipient of 7 prestigious awards given in the field of HMPs and remained BOYSCAST Fellow of DST, Govt of India. He is Board Member of International Council for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ICMAP) and Member of many professional bodies including International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), International Society of Ethno-Pharmacology (ISE), International Society for Medicinal Plant Research (GA), International Pharmaceutical Students Federation, International Society of Natural Product Development, APTI, IPA, IPGA, ISTE and IAHP.