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A Companion Volume to Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China
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A Companion Volume to Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China
About this book
The old saying "no prescription can be made without Yunnan medicinal materials" suggests the profound heritage and extensive influence of Yunnan's ethnic medicine culture and medicinal plant resources. This book, A Companion Volume to Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China, continues the systematical introduction of the plant morphological characteristics, medicinal history, resource situation, traditional uses, ethnopharmacology, phytochemicals, pharmacological effects, biosynthesis, and sustainable utilization of some important or endemic medicinal plants and mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China, including Amomi Fructus, Amomum tsaoko, Angelica sinensis, Aucklandia costus, Gentiana rigescens, Phyllanthus emblica, and Polygonatum kingianu, Tricholoma matsutake, etc. Furthermore, this book offers strategies and advice for sustainable utilization and rational exploitation of medicinal plant resources in Yunnan, drawing on the basis of the author's years of practice in the field.
- Reviews species-specific natural products discovered from Yunnan medicinal plants, and their bio-activities.
- Provides a brief introduction to the commercial drugs and health products developed based on these medicinal plants.
- Discusses the resource availability and conservation status of these medicinal plants.
- For those threatened species, the causes of their endangerment are summarized and conservation strategies are proposed.
- Enhances understanding with high-quality original photographs and illustrations of the plants, their habitats, and usage in traditional remedies.
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Yes, you can access A Companion Volume to Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China by Hai-Yang Liu,Yunheng Ji,Xin Fang in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Nursing. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Yunnan Aucklandia costus Falc.
- 2 Polygonatum kingianum Collett & Hemsl.: Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and Application
- 3 Yunnan Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) Diels
- 4 Traditional Uses, Chemistry, Bioactivity of Salvia yunnanensis C. H. Wright
- 5 Paris Species in Yunnan Province
- 6 Panax japonicus Complex
- 7 Amomi Fructus: Resources, Traditional Application, Phytochemicals, and Pharmacological Activities
- 8 Botany, Traditional Application, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology of Amomum tsaoko
- 9 Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and Toxicology of the “Heartbreak Grass” Gelsemium elegans (Gardner & Champ.) Benth
- 10 Traditional Utilization, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology of Origanum vulgare L.
- 11 Gentiana rigescens Franch. ex Hemsl.
- 12 Phyllanthus emblica Linn.
- 13 Botany, Chemistry, Bioactivity, and Biogeography of Spiraea japonica Complex (Rosaceae)
- 14 Tripterygium hypoglaucum (H. Lév.) Hutch
- 15 Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry, and Biological Activity of Daphniphyllum Species
- 16 Five Popular Wild Edible Mushrooms in Yunnan: Tricholoma matsutake, Boletus edulis, Thelephora ganbajun, Sarcodon imbricatus, and Russula virescens
- 17 Sustainable Utilization and Rational Exploitation of Medicinal Plant Resources in Yunnan Province
- Index