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Exploring Medicinal Orchids is a comprehensive guide for medicinally important orchids, their diversity, and use in traditional and folk medicines.

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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.

Tartalomjegyzék:

1            Introduction to medicinal orchids

Ayushi Negi, Kritika Chauhan, Himani Adhikari, Azamal Husen, Manu Pant

2            Conservation of medicinal orchids through Tissue culture

Prasenjit Paul and Suman Kumaria

3            Role of post harvest handling in conservation of medicinal orchids

Manuj Awasthi, Abhishek Chandra and Sunil Malik

4            Orchids in the traditional system of medicine

BD Sharma

5            Medicinal value and other potential uses of Bulbophyllum orchids

Kiran Bisht, Aarushi Gautam, Manu Pant, Ashish Gaur, Nital Nilesh Chankeshwara, Abhijeet Rathod

6            Phytochemicals and Therapeutic Importance of Some Coelogyne Lindl. (Orchidaceae): An overview

S.M. Khasim, J. Ramudu, M. Rahamtulla and Venkatesh Rampilla

7            Crepidium orchids and their therapeutic potential

Anuprabha, Vikas Kushwaha

8            Cypripedium orchids and their utilization in traditional and modern medicine

Anuprabha, Vikas Kushwaha, Anamika Kumari, Promila Pathak

9            Medicinal and therapeutic uses of Dendrobium orchids

T. Yatung., Kalkame Ch. Momin, V. Bhargav., Pooja Murthy, S., Usha Bharathi, T

10          Medicinal orchids of genus Habenaria

Noyal Tino Ammini, Gopalakrishnan Aazhivaendhan, Chinnaiyan Rajasekar, Govindarajan Siva, Thiruppathi Senthil Kumar, Mariappan Muthukumar

11          Curative and restorative properties of Luisia orchids

Pawan Singh Rana

12          The significance and utilization of Pholidota orchids in medicinal preparations

Mukti Ram Poudeyal, Khageshwari Saud, Mukti Ram Paudel, Uday Kumar Singh