Herbs and Herbal Science Books

Herbal Principles In Cosmetics is presents a new approach based on scientific analysis of the mechanisms and actions of herbal principles. Demonstrates the science behind herbal compounds in skincare. Beginning with background in anatomy and physiology of the skin and the classification, mechanisms, and application of herbal compounds, this book provides monographs complete with therapeutic properties, specific action and dermatological properties, toxicities, pictures, and references.

Features:

 

• Affordable prices
• Captivating design
• Excellent layou

Detailing:

• Presents a new approach based on scientific analysis of the mechanisms and actions of herbal principles
• Compiles a comprehensive list of the most current research articles
• Includes illustrations of plants, spices, and herbs, as well as electron micrograph and chemical structures
• Contains an eight-page color insert

Herbal Drugs Industry

(V. Rajpal and DPS Kohli)

Edition: 2nd Edition, 2009, Hardbound, 440 pages:

This 2009 new and revised 2nd edition is now brought up-to-date with latest contemporary processing technology. The old edition has been revised thoroughly and obsolete information was deleted and necessary corrections made. New chapters on Supercritical Fluid Extraction & Ultrasonic Extraction are examples of this new development. Due to rapid development in the fields of pharmacology and bioavailability and to enhance shelf-life of products, two new chapters have been added respectively; Herb Drug Interactions and a chapter on Liposomes and Phytosomes.

Contents:

• Chapter 1- Extraction of Medicinal Plants
• Chapter 2- Supercritical Fluid Extraction and Ultrasonic Extraction
• Chapter 3- Liposomes and Phytosomes
• Chapter 4- Extraction Charts
• Chapter 5- Phytopharmaceuticals and Their Source Herbs
• Chapter 6-Herbal Sources of Food Supplements, Taste Enhancers, Colours and Cosmetics
• Chapter 7- Herbal Extracts
• Chapter 8- Some Hints on Herbal Formulations
• Chapter 9- Pharmacological Classification of Medicinal Herbs
• Chapter 10-Herb – Drug Interactions
• Chapter 11-Suggested Dosage of Natural Plant Products

The most exhaustive and comprehensive book ever available on the subject:

• Safety and Toxicity in Herbal Drugs
• Ethnobotany in Drug Evaluation
• Macro-Morphographical Studies
• Development of Standardization Parameters
• Phytoconstituents and Their Analysis
• Extraction of Herbal Drugs
• TLC - Detailed Procedures and Guidelines
• HPTLC - Densitometry
• Pharmacological Screening of Herbal Drugs
• Good Agricultural and Harvesting Practices
• Quality Assurance and Stability Testing of Herbal Drugs
• Analytical Profiles of Selected Medicinal Plants

Table of Contents :

• The Pharmacokinetic Basis of Therapeutics
• Pharmacodynamics
• Adverse Reactions and Drug–Drug Interactions
• Herb–Drug Interactions
• Natural Products as a Resource for Established and New Drugs
• Alternative Therapies
• Herbal Therapeutics Then and Now
• Dietary Antioxidants
• Herbal Drugs and Their High Demand in Treating Diseases
• Algae
• Alkaloids
• Aloe and Colon Function
• Banisterine, Selegiline, and Parkinson’s Disease
• Belladonna Alkaloids: Autonomic Drugs
• Blueberry (Vaccinium)
• Botulinum Toxin
• Brussels Sprouts
• Cannabis
• Capsicum, Rosemary, and Turmeric
• Carotenoids
• Chocolate
• Cinchona Tree
• Coca
• Colchicine and Gout
• Compositae
• Curare and Neuromuscular Blockade
• Daffodil and Alzheimer’s Disease
• Eggplant
• Ephedrine (Ma Huang): A Decongestant and Vasopressor
• Ergot, Its Alkaloids, and Headache
• Flavonoids
• Flaxseed
• Folate in Fruit
• Food–Drug Interactions
• Foxglove, Cardiac Glycosides, and Congestive Heart Failure
• Ginkgo biloba
• Ginseng and Cholinergic Transmission
• Green, White, and Black Teas
• Herbal Plants and Tuberculosis
• Herbal Products for the Chemotherapy of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
• Honey: The Nectar of Life
• Horseradish and Antiplatelet Actions
• Hypericum (St. John’s Wort) and Depression
• Ipecac
• Manuka and Fungal Disease
• Marine Therapeutics
• Morphine:Papaver somniferum
• Oats (Avena sativa L.) and Their Antioxidant Activity
• Olives and Olive Oil
• Onion and Garlic
• Immunoenhancing Actions of Plantain
• Plants and Diabetes
• Pomegranate
• Pycnogenol
• Pygeum africanum and Permixon for the Treatment of Patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
• Reserpine
• Rhubarb
• Saffron
• Salicylate
• Herbs
• Sponges and Steroids
• Tomatoes
• Ulcer Therapy with Herbal Medicine
• Valerian
• Vitamins and Diet
• Wheat Germ
• Wine
• Yogurt and the Immune System
• Specific References
• General References
• Index

Traditional Herbal Medicine Research Methods: Identification, Analysis, Bioassay, and Pharmaceutical

By Willow J.H. Liu Hardcover488 pages collection and identification of herbal materials, extraction and isolation of compounds from herbs, in vitro bioassay, in vivo animal test, toxicology, and clinical trials of herbal research. To fully understand and make the best use of herbal medicines requires the close combination of chemistry, biochemistry, biology, pharmacology, and clinical science. Although there are many books about traditional medicines research, they mostly focus on either chemical or pharmacological study results of certain plants. This book, however, covers the systematic study and analysis of herbal medicines in general – including chemical isolation and identification, bioassay and mechanism study, pharmacological experiment, and quality control of the raw plant material and end products.

It will be an indispensable resource for academic and industrial researchers and both undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy students contents.

Section 1:

• General aspects
• The worldwide phenomenon of increased use of herbal products - opportunities and threats
• Approaches to ensuring and assessing activity in indian herbal products
• Natural remedies from the middle east
• Chinese traditional medicines-the challenge of acceptance by western medicine
• Chinese traditional medicines-evaluation of botanical extracts & dietary supplements

Section 2:

• Pharmacology and clinical aspects
• Synergy and polyvalence
• From clinical evidence to mechanisms of action
• Herbal medicines for functional gastrointestinal disorders
• Authentication and quality assessment of botanical products used in clinical research Therapy for hepatic carcinoma using herbal drugs

Testing of medicinal herbs and their derivatives like extracts, phytochemicals, oleoresins etc has all along been a difficult and controversial subject due to the complex nature of the active constituents of the medicinal herbs found wild or cultivated in various regions of the world. An effort is done in book Standardization of Botanicals to include, at least some testing methods, in various pharmacopoeias but there is still a wide gap between the medicinal herbs and their testing methods. This book containing 25 monographs of medicinal herbs fills that gap in knowledge base with detailed, ready to use and validated extraction processes and methods of testing to be performed in a well-equipped testing laboratory.

Volume I with 25 monographs was published in 2002 which was perhaps one of the very few books providing specifications and testing methods for various types of herbal extracts like soft extracts, dry extracts and phytochemicals. Most of the data provided was based on the hands-on experience of the author Dr. V. Rajpal who has been constantly associated with the testing as well as processing of medicinal herbs and their derivatives since 1976 in an industrial setting. His experience of providing consultancy for setting up herb processing and testing laboratories led to his in-depth knowledge of problems faced by the herb processing factories and quality control laboratories.

Since 2002 Dr. V. Rajpal had been working on 25 other commonly used medicinal herbs in India as well as other countries. He has collected all the data with latest national and international references to make the all-new 25 monographs complete and up-to-date.

Contents:

• Adhatoda vasica Nees
• Aegle marmelos Linn
• Aesculus hippocastanum
• Ammi majus
• Artemisia annua
• Asparagus racemosus Willd
• Azadirachta indica A. Juss
• Coleus forskohlii (Willd.) Briq
• Crataeva nurvala Buch – Ham
• Curcuma longa Linn
• Gloriosa superba Linn
• Glycine max Merrill
• Holarrhena antidysenterica Wall ex DC
• Lagerstroemia speciosa [L.] Pers.
• Matricaria recutita Linn
• Ocimum sanctum Linn
• Phyllanthus emblica Linn
• Piper nigrum
• Podophyllum emodi Wallich
• Psoralea corylifolia Linn
• Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb.
• Sida cordifolia Linn
• Taxus wallichiana Zucc
• Terminalia arjuna (Roxb.) Wight & Arnot
• Terminalia chebula Retz
• Annexures

There has been a resurgence in usage of herbal medicine in the past few years, not only among the traditional medicine users (ethno-medicine) but also among the modern consumers of herbal products. This is supplemented with all round growth of similar natural products among the nutritional supplements and personal care segments. The question of quality therefore acquires greater importance today than ever before. While there are some books available on identification, description, pharmacological action, safety aspects etc. of medicinal herbs, very few books can be found on quantitative testing of medicinal herbs.

Standardization of Botanicals fulfills that gap in knowledge base with detailed, ready to use and validated methods of analysis to be perfomed in a quality control laboratory. This book will be welcomed by all those who are concerned about the standardization of botanicals as it provides analytical procedures for extracts as well as phytochemicals.

This book is an attempt to provide, not only the quantitative testing methods but also chemical constituents, extraction processes, specifications of various extracts, therapeutic functions, dosage, pharmacological properties, toxicity/safety aspects and references. Volume I of this book contains 25 widely used medicinal herbs.

About the author:

Dr. Rajpal obtained his doctorate in phytochemistry in 1976 and since then has been associated with the herb processing and testing of botanicals, their extracts and phytochemicals in an industrial setting. He also provides consultancy services to various companies in this sector. He is presently working as a Technical Director with a company engaged in extraction of botanical.

Contents:

Preface:

• Acorus calamus
• Aloe barbadensis
• Andrographis paniculata
• Bacopa monnieri
• Boswellia serrata
• Cassia angustifolia
• Centella asiatica
• Cissus quadrangularis
• Commiphora mukul Gum (Guggul Gum)
• Eclipta alba
• Garcinia cambogia
• Glycyrrhiza glabra
• Gymnema sylvestre
• Hypericum perforatum
• Mucuna pruriens
• Passiflora incarnata
• Phyllanthus amarus
• Picrorhiza kurroa
• Polygala senega
• Tinospora cordifolia
• Tribulus terrestris
• Trigonella foenumgraecum
• Valeriana wallichii
• Withania somnifera
• Zingiber officinale

Annexures:

• Annexure - 1 Herb Extraction Chart
• Annexure - 2 Websites on Herbal Medicines

The long awaited book on Good Manufacturing Practices with a Nuts-and-Bolts approach to provide a no-nonsense and practical support for the industries and laboratories in the field of botanicals.

In this edited volume of book GMP for Botanicals ,leading academics and industrial scientists have contributed with various aspects of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and nov el methods for quality production of botanicals, their standardization, international regulatory status and related approaches for their implementation in the field of herbal medicines.

Features:

• Provides guidelines on GMP for botanicals
• Provides a practical view on the production of botanicals
• Explains the quest for GMP in herbal medicines

Table of contents:

Chapter1:

 

• Development of natural products
• Robert Verpoorte

 

Chapter2:

 

• Legal systems and regulations
• Willem K Scholten

Chapter3:

 

• Overview of global regulatory status
• KK Bhutani and HR Jadhav

Chapter4:

 

• Regulatory controls on phytomedicines
• VB Desai, S Badami, Giriraj T Kulkarni and B Suresh

Chapter5:

 

• Herbal medicine regulations in russia
• Severtsev VA, Makarov VG, Shikov AN and Pozharitskaya ON

 

Chapter6:

• Producing quality botanicals through gmp
• Rajeev K Sharma

Chapter7:

• Gmp requirements in indian systems of medicine
• Pulok K Mukherjee

Chapter8:

 

• Guidance on gmp for phytomedicines
• JPS Kohli

Chapter9:

 

• Formulation techniques in ayurveda ks jayashree Chapter 10
• Quest for gmp for the production of botanicals
• Pulok K Mukherjee and BP Saha

Chapter11:

 

• Development of ayurvedic medicine
• D Shanthkumar Lucas

 

Chapter12:

• Manufacturing and quality control of ayurvedic and herbal preparations
• J Singh, GD Bagchi and SPS Khanuja

 

Chapter13:

• Ensuring safe use of herbal drugs
• MK Chattopadhyay

Chapter14:

 

• Quality and safety of botanicals
• K Sadasivan Pillai and V Amalan Stanley

Chapter15:

 

• Analysis of south pacific herbal drugs
• Subramaniam Sotheeswaran

Chapter16:

• Quality control of botanicals containing essential oils
• A Zaenglein

Chapter17:

 

• Mass spectrometry applications in herbal medicine analysis
• Pierluigi Mauri and Piergiorgio Pietta

Chapter18:

• Capillary electrophoresis in herbal medicine analysis
• Piergiorgio Pietta and Claudio Gardana

 

Chapter19:

 

• Pharmacological evaluation
• A Subramonium

Chapter20:

 

• Clinical trials of herbal medicines
• Carmen Tamayo

Chapter21:

 

• Role of bioassays in development of natural products
• Amit Agarwal and Prasanth D Souza
• References

 

Handbook of Phytochemical Constituents of GRAS Herbs And Other Electronic Plants contains more than 1,000 economically important plants. which is covers all of the generally-recognized-as-safe (GRAS) herbs and at least 250 important food and medicinal plants. Each entry features the scientific name, one or more common names, a listing of photochemical constituents, a single datum or range of quantitative data (wet-weight to dry-weight in parts per million), two-letter abbreviation identifying the plant part, and three-letter abbreviation(s) indicating the source(s) of the data.

Features:

• Highly demanded
• Reasonable price
• Highly appreciated

Detailing:

• Lists vitamins, minerals, and photochemical
• Gives quantities present in parts per million (ppm)
• Features all of the species considered GRAS by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• Gives the scientific name, common name(s), photochemical constituents, a single datum or range of quantitative data, and abbreviations for each entry

Herbs and spices are among the most versatile and widely used ingredients in food processing. As well as their traditional role in flavouring and colouring foods, they have been increasingly used as natural preservatives and for their potential health-promoting properties, for example as antioxidants. Edited by a leading authority in the field, and with a distinguished international team of contributors, the Handbook of herbs and spices provides an essential reference for manufacturers wishing to make the most of these important ingredients.

Herbal supplements: efficacy, toxicity, interactions with western drugs, and effects on clinical lab:

Herbal supplements: efficacy, toxicity, interactions with western drugs, and effects on clinical laboratory testsamitava dasgupta (editor), catherine a. hammett-stabler (editor) hardcover488 pagesfebruary 2011

This book focuses on efficacy, toxicity, drug interactions, and abnormal clinical laboratory tests resulting from the use of herbal remedies. although a few herbal remedies are safe and have efficacy (for example saw palmetto), many herbal remedies are toxic. this book guides in the interpretation of abnormal test results in otherwise healthy subjects due to use of herbal remedies. chapters focus on interactions between herbals and pharmaceuticals, sources of contamination in herbal supplements, and analytical techniques used in the investigation of herbal remedies.

The skyrocketing cost of research for therapeutic molecules from purely synthetic chemistry, has prompted the resurgence of interest in traditional herbal medicine. While clinical usage of such herbs has been extensively documented in ancient texts, exhaustive plant profiles are lacking for most plants, especially with regard to phytochemicals and their biosynthetic pathways. This shortage of information, coupled with increasing information demands of modern validation procedures of manufacturers of herbal medicinal products and the demand of increasingly well-informed regulatory authorities worldwide, is putting increasing pressure on scientists and technologists to come up with such information. In addition, researchers involved with ethno botanical bioprospecting, from the pharmaceutical industry and academic research institutes are also on the lookout for such information. Towards that end, this book Glossary of Phytochemicals has been compiled to contribute to such a knowledgebase where concise and practical information has been provided on about 1,300 phytochemicals from 850 medicinal plants, most of them being of Indian origin. The unique feature of this book is that to keep it manageable, the coverage has been restricted to those phytochemicals that show promise as a future therapeutic molecule, based on extensive experience of the editor as MD alternative medicine. Information provided on each phytochemical includes, generic name, chemical class, molecular weight and formula, melting point, boiling point, physical form, solubility, CAS number, biological source, biological action and chemical structure with stereochemistry.

Contents:

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction to Phytochemicals
• Phytochemicals
• References
• Therapeutic Index
• Medicinal Plants Index
• About the Editor