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Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity and
Drugs was edited
by Mahendra Rai, Geoffrey A. Cordell, Jose L. Martinez, Mariela Marinoff, and
Luca Rastrelli and published in 2012 by CRC Press. 650 pages; hardcover.
$149.95. 
Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity and
Drugs is a
collection of scientific articles on traditional aspects of recent medicinal
plant research, such as folk medicine, drug discovery, and ethnomedical
knowledge. In the book’s foreword, editor Michael Heinrich stresses the
importance of finding local solutions to global health problems, and many of
the book’s 21 diverse chapters discuss such remedies used traditionally in
communities around the world. Chapter 5, for example, addresses the various
uses of plants from the genus Croton
by people in northeastern Brazil; Chapter 7 covers medicinal plant knowledge in
Andalusia, Spain; and Chapter 9 details anti-malarial plants used as medicines
in Bangladesh. Each of the chapters, some of which span 50 pages or more,
includes the author’s affiliations and contact information as well as an
extensive reference list.
An
excerpt from Medicinal Plants:
Biodiversity and Drugs is available for HerbalEGram readers. It contains
the foreword, preface, table of contents, and Chapter 3, “Revitalization of the
Knowledge of Herbs: A Way Forward to Discovery of New Drugs.” The book can be
purchased from ABC's website.
From the
book, Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity and
Drugs, by Mahendra Rai, Geoffrey A. Cordell, Jose L. Martinez, Mariela
Marinoff, and Luca Rastrelli (eds.). ©2012 Copyright reserved. Reproduced with
permission from the publisher.
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