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| Antimalarial Medicinal Plants |
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ISBN: 978-1-03-245715-4,
308 pages,
Hard Cover
ISBN-10: 1-03-245715-5 |
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| Copyright: |
2024 |
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| Edition: |
1st |
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| Editor: |
Husen, Azamal |
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Infectious Disease
, Complementary & Integrative Health |
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| Publisher: |
CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group |
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| Series Title: |
Exploring Medical Plants |
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| List Price: |
$230.00 |
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At A Glance
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Malaria continues to affect a large population of the world, especially in third world countries. The spread of drug-resistant parasites demonstrates the need for antimalarial agents with various modes of action. The search for remedies derived from medicinal plants for the treatment of malaria is reliant on accurate ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological information obtained from traditional medical practitioners. Antimalarial Medicinal Plants provides information on bioactive compounds and therapeutic potentials of several antimalarial plant species found around the globe. This book evaluates these plant species with respect to their biology, diversity, distribution, and pharmacological values. A volume in the Exploring Medicinal Plants series, this book highlights trends, technologies, processes, and services important to and necessary for efficient production, use, and understanding of medicinal qualities of antimalarial plants. It critically examines claims made by traditional medical practitioners with scientific validations for safe herbal drug formulation. It is a reference work for researchers of herbal medicine, traditional healers, pharmacists, and students associated with plant sciences and economic botany.
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Reviewer:
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Tolu Oyelowo,
DC, PhD
(Northwestern Health Sciences University)
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Are the author's objectives met? |
8 |
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Is this written at an appropriate level? |
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Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) |
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Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) |
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Are there sufficient illustrations? |
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Are there sufficient references? |
3 |
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Rate the pertinence of the references. |
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If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book |
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Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? |
8 |
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If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? |
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Reviewer:
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Tolu Oyelowo,
DC, PhD
(Northwestern Health Sciences University)
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Description
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| This book takes a comprehensive approach to exploring the medicinal plants used for the treatment of malaria. Malaria is a global condition, and the book acknowledges this by describing plants from all over the world. |
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Purpose
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| The purpose of the book is to illuminate understanding of the medicinal qualities and efficacy of antimalarial plants from a global perspective. Given the global reach of malaria, and the myriad approaches to management from health care providers and traditional medicine practitioners, this is a worthy objective. The book meets the objective by enabling practitioners to learn from each other by creating a 'one stop shop'. The book offers a place where practitioners in India can easily see what the healing agent is in a compound and determine its capacity and compare with ingredients used by practitioners in Ghana, the U.S., Tanzania, or anywhere else in the world where malaria is prevalent. |
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Audience
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| This book is a reference for researchers of herbal medicine, traditional healers, pharmacists, and students associated with plant sciences and economic botany. In addition to the audience listed, this book is a useful resource for anyone with an interest in malaria including policy makers, and allopathic and non-allopathic healers. |
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Features
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| This book covers malaria treatment using plant species. It takes a global view of the myriads of medicinal plants used to treat malaria. It discusses the active ingredient in the plants, the part of the plants that is useful for malaria treatment, and highlights research that supports the efficacy of the specific compound in the plants that facilitates malaria treatment. The book provides a summary of additional uses of the active antimalarial ingredients for treating non-malarial disorders. The tables are particularly helpful as they provide an orderly summary for a topic that could prove chaotic given the myriads of plants used worldwide and the fact that the part of the plant used in treatment varies. Appearing to acknowledge the need for clarity, the book includes specifics on the part of the plant used in treatment. Further, it includes toxic compounds that are associated with these antimalarial plants and discusses co-management strategies through the lens of nutraceutical supplementation. Included in the text is a section on anti-malarial drugs and drugs with compounds derived from plants. The strengths of the book include the summary tables, the references, other known actions, and applications of the active ingredient in the plant and adverse implications or plant toxicities. The chapter on sustainable harvesting is a value add. The pictures would be more useful if done in color; as is, the distinguishing features of the plants are hard to see. |
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Assessment
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| This book is a good resource primarily for practitioners of herbal medicine, but also for any practitioners interested in treating malaria. This book is similar in format to Traditional Medicinal Plants and Malaria, Willcox et al. (CRC Press, 2004). |
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