Christophe Wiart

Medicinal Plants in the Asia Pacific for Zoonotic Pandemics, Volume 3 (eBook, ePUB)

Family Bixaceae to Portulacaceae

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents commentary sections that invite reflection on the fascinating and timely subject of the development of leads or herbals from Asia-Pacific medicinal plants to safeguard humanity and other life forms against the forthcoming waves of viral, bacterial, or fungal pandemics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000477313
• Artikelnr.: 62782568

Autorenporträt

Christophe Wiart is a French scientist. His fields of expertise are Asian ethnopharmacology, chemotaxonomy and ethnobotany. He has collected, identified and classified several hundred species of medicinal plants from India, Southeast Asia and China. Ethnopharmacology of medicinal plants in Asia Pacific; bioprospection, collection and identification of medicinal botanical samples and phytochemical and pharmacological study for the identification of lead compounds as novel antibacterial, anticancer, and antioxidant principles from rare plants from the rainforest of Southeast Asia. Dr. Christophe Wiart appeared on HBO's Vice (TV Series) in season 3, episode 6 (episode 28 of the series), titled "The Post-Antibiotic World & Indonesia's Palm Bomb." This episode aired on April 17, 2015. It highlighted the need to find new treatments for infections that were previously treatable with antibiotics, but are now resistant to multiple drugs. "The last hope for the human race's survival, I believe, is in the rainforests of tropical Asia", said ethnopharmacologist Dr. Christophe Wiart. "The pharmaceutical wealth of this land is immense".

Inhaltsangabe

The Clade Malvids (Continued) 8.4. Order Malvales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.
Presl (1820) 8.5. Order Sapindales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl (1820) 8.6.
Order Santalales R. Br. ex Bercht. & J. Presl (1820) 8.7. Order
Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl (1820)