Plant and Human Health, Volume 3 Pharmacology and Therapeutic Uses /

• 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 breeding.; Plant genetics.; Agriculture.; Genetic engineering.; Complementary medicine.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Genetics and Genomics.; Genetic Engineering.; Complementary & Alternative Medicine.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.

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...