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Aromatic and Medicinal Plants of Drylands and Deserts : Ecology, Ethnobiology, and Potential Uses, Hardback Book

Aromatic and Medicinal Plants of Drylands and Deserts : Ecology, Ethnobiology, and Potential Uses Hardback

Edited by David Ramiro Aguillon-Gutierrez, Cristian (Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Mexico) Torres-Leon, Jorge Alejandro (Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Mexico) Aguirre-Joya

Part of the Exploring Medicinal Plants series

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The description and analysis of the Mexican and other countries desertic plants from the point of view of their use in traditional medicine and their potential use in integrative medicine is the overall theme of this book.

Aromatic and Medicinal Plants of Drylands and Deserts: Ecology, Ethnobiology and Potential Uses describes the historic use of drylands plants, botanical and geological classification, also describes the endemic plants used in traditional medicine, going through the most relevant aspects of biomedicine and integrative medicine.

The chemical and bioactive compounds from desertic medicinal and aromatic plants and the analytic techniques to determine chemical and bioactive compounds from the medicinal and aromatic plants are reviewed.

Ethnobiology is detailed in the present book as well as the importance of the integrative medicine for the ancient and actual cultures.

The book represents an effort to keep the ethnobiological knowledge of communities for the use of traditional desertic plants with the actual analytical techniques to unveil the chemical molecules responsible of the biological or biomedical applications.

Features:Describes the endemic plants used in traditional medicineIncludes the chemical and bioactive compounds from desertic medicinal plantsAddresses the analytic techniques to determine chemical and bioactive compoundsRepresents an effort to keep the ethnobiological knowledge of communitiesTo execute this book, there are collaborations by authors from different institutions in northern Mexico, which is where the arid and semi-arid ecosystems of the country are found.

Although the subject of medicinal plants has been treated from different angles, this book offers a holistic and comprehensive vision of these important organisms of the Mexican desert, thus resulting in an updated work for specialized readers and for those who are beginning in this exciting theme.

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