Exploring Medicinal Orchids
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Exploring Medicinal Orchids

  1. 152 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Exploring Medicinal Orchids

About this book

Orchids are fascinating ornamental flowers with a huge market both as cut flowers and potted plants, but they are also used in the traditional medicine system as they can be rich in phytochemicals with exceptional medicinal properties. This book, Exploring Medicinal Orchids, is a comprehensive guide for medicinally important orchids, their diversity, and their use in traditional and folk medicines. It presents information on secondary metabolites of medicinally active orchid species, pharmaceutical and medicinal applications, and describes advanced techniques of biotechnology in the conservation of medicinal orchids.

Features

  • Dedicated chapters discuss phytochemical constituents and medicinal properties of orchids
  • Enriches the understanding of secondary metabolites of medicinal orchids and their pharmaceutical application
  • Elaborates the botanical, ethnomedicinal, and pharmacological aspects of various medicinal orchids
  • Demonstrates tissue culture systems for the conservation of medicinal orchids

A volume in the Exploring Medicinal Plants series, this book is a resource for academics, researchers, professors, and students working in the fields of medicinal plants and flowers, biodiversity conservation, herbal medicine, and plant biotechnology.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032555539
eBook ISBN
9781040176405
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Botany
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. About the Editors
  10. List of Contributors
  11. Chapter 1 Medicinal Orchids: Potential, Conservation, and Healing Traditions Ayushi Negi, Kritika Chauhan, Himani Adhikari, Azamal Husen, and Manu Pant
  12. Chapter 2 Conservation of Medicinal Orchids through Plant Tissue Culture Prasenjit Paul and Suman Kumaria
  13. Chapter 3 Conservation of Endangered Medicinal Orchid Species through Post-Harvest Handling for Future Sustainable Use Manuj Awasthi, Abhishek Chandra, and Sunil Malik
  14. Chapter 4 Traditional Medicinal Uses of Orchids B.D. Sharma
  15. Chapter 5 Medicinal Values and Other Potential Uses of Bulbophyllum Orchids Kiran Bisht, Aarushi Gautam, Manu Pant, Ashish Gaur, Nital Nilesh Chankeshwara, and Abhijeet Rathod
  16. Chapter 6 Phytochemicals and Therapeutic Importance of Some Coelogyne Lindl. (Orchidaceae): An Overview S.M. Khasim, J. Ramudu, M. Rahamtulla, and Venkatesh Rampilla
  17. Chapter 7 Crepidium Orchids and their Therapeutic Potential Anu Prabha and Vikas Kushwaha
  18. Chapter 8 Cypripedium Orchids and their Utilization in Traditional and Modern Medicine Anu Prabha, Vikas Kushwaha, Anamika Kumari, and Promila Pathak
  19. Chapter 9 Medicinal and Therapeutic Uses of Dendrobium Orchids T. Yatung, Kalkame Ch. Momin, V. Bhargav, S. Pooja Murthy, and T. Usha Bharathi
  20. Chapter 10 Medicinal Orchids of Genus Habenaria Noyaljohnson Tinoammini, Gopalakrishnan Aazhivaendhan, Chinnaiyan Rajasekar, Govindarajan Siva, Thiruppathi Senthil Kumar, and Mariappan Muthukumar
  21. Chapter 11 Curative and Restorative Properties of Luisia Orchids Pawan Singh Rana
  22. Chapter 12 The Significance and Utilization of Pholidota Orchids in Medicinal Preparations Mukti Ram Poudeyal, Khageshwari Sand, Mukti Ram Paudel, and Uday Kumar Singh
  23. Index