Exploring Poisonous Plants

Medicinal Values, Toxicity Responses, and Therapeutic Uses

Azamal Husen

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032311371
• eBook ISBN: 9781000834406
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicina
• Subtopic: Biologia

Poisonous plants are used in traditional medicine systems in various healing therapies. They are a rich resource of ingredients used in herbal drug formulations that are also used in the development of synthetic drugs. They are recognized for their antioxidant, anti-inflammation, anti-cancer, and anti-diabetic activities and for many other health benefits. Exploring Poisonous Plants: Medicinal Values, Toxicity Responses, and Therapeutic Uses provides an analysis of the most important poisonous herbs, shrubs, and trees, detailing poisonous plants while demonstrating endorsements for their potential therapeutic values.

Features:

Presents therapeutic potentials on various poisonous herbs, shrubs, and trees.

Provides descriptions of notable toxic compounds and discusses their adverse effects when consumed by animals or people.

Gives practical guidance for botanical description, distribution, phytochemical constituents, pharmacological studies, and traditional and other potential uses of selected poisonous plants.

This volume in the Exploring Medicinal Plants series is appropriate for scientists, researchers, and students working with poisonous plants, as well as in areas of economic botany, plant biochemistry, biotechnology, pharmacognosy, pharmaceuticals, industrial chemistry, and nanomedicine.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• About the Editor
• Preface
• Contributors
• Section A General Information
• Section B Poisonous Plants (Botanical Description, Distribution, Phytochemical Constituents, Pharmacological Studies, Toxic Response, Traditional, and Other Potential Uses and Future Remarks)
• Index