Evidence-Based Validation of Herbal Medicine: Translational Research on Botanicals, Edition 2

Pulok K. Mukherjee

Jul 2022 · Elsevier

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Evidence-Based Validation of Herbal Medicines: Translational Research on Botanicals brings together current thinking and practice in the characterization and validation of natural products. The book describes different approaches and techniques for evaluating the quality, safety and efficacy of herbal medicine, particularly methods to assess their activity and understand compounds responsible and their probable underlying mechanisms of action. This book brings together the views, expertise and experiences of scientific experts in the field of medicinal plant research, hence it will be useful for researcher who want to know more about the natural lead with their validation and also useful to exploit traditional medicines. - Includes state-of-the-art methods for detecting, isolating and performing structure elucidation by degradation and spectroscopic techniques - Highlights the trends in validation and value addition of herbal medicine with different scientific approaches used in therapeutics - Contains several all-new chapters on topics such as traditional-medicine-inspired drug development to treat emerging viral diseases, medicinal plants in antimicrobial resistance, TLC bio profiling, botanicals as medicinal foods, bioprospecting and bioassay-guided isolation of medicinal plants, immunomodulators from medicinal plants, and more

About the author

Prof. Pulok Kumar Mukherjee is working as the Director, Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, under Department Biotechnology, Govt. of India, at Imphal, Manipur. He worked as the Director of the School of Natural Product Studies and Professor (On lien), Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He has made several innovative and outstanding contributions in academic/research on development of Bio-economy from Bioresources particularly on traditional medicine inspired drug discovery from Indian medicinal plants, Ethno pharmacology and evidence based validation of herbs used in medicine and food to make them available from ‘Farm to Pharma’. Prof. Mukherjee is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), West Bengal Academy of Sciences (FAScT), National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India (FNAAS), and the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc). He has contributed over 230 publications in peer-reviewed impact journals, several patents, and books on evaluation of botanicals. His works on translational research on traditional medicine are useful bio-prospecting tools for the development of drugs from nature and ancestors. For further details please visit www.pulokmukherjee.in

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