Plant and Human Health, Volume 2 Phytochemistry and Molecular Aspects /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ozturk, Munir (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hakeem, Khalid Rehman (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Plant biochemistry.; Plant breeding.; Agriculture.; Food-Biotechnology.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Complementary medicine.; Plant Biochemistry.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Food Science.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.; Complementary & Alternative Medicine.

Early anthropological evidence for plant use as medicine is 60,000 years old as reported from the Neanderthal grave in Iraq. The importance of plants as medicine is further supported by archeological evidence from Asia and the Middle East. Today, around 1.4 billion people in South Asia alone have no...