Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology of medicinal and aromatic plants : steps towards drug discovery / edited by Adnan Mohd, Mitesh Patel, and Mejdi Snoussi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Medicinal and aromatic plants are beneficial to human health benefitting human health. Plant-derived molecules possess biological activities that can be used to prevent many infectious diseases and metabolic disorders. Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants summarizes techniques and methods used to study the biological activities of plant-derived extracts and compounds to study ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological features of medicinal and aromatic plants. A volume in the Exploring Medicinal Plants series, this book is useful to those working with plant extracts including botanists and ethnobotanists; pharmacologists and ethnopharmacologists; as well as scientists and researchers interested in natural compounds and their potential applications"-- Provided by publisher.