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Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease that affects millions worldwide, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. The recent emergence and spread of multidrug resistance in parts of Southeast Asia prompts the urgent need for novel and effective therapy against the disease. Medicinal Plants and Malaria: Applications, Trends, and Prospects highlights the therapeutic potential of plants for treating malaria. It collates useful information on malaria, current prevention and treatment, and scientific research carried out.

This up-to-date book details the medicinal plant species used in treating malaria and describes the plant parts used, methods of preparation, and doses where available. The book begins with a brief introduction of malaria, and covers its epidemiology and implications on public health, the life cycle of Plasmodium parasites, clinical presentation of the disease, currently available antimalarial drugs and their roles in therapy, and medicinal

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Malaria: An Overview. Current Antimalarial Drugs. Research on Medicinal Plants for Malaria. Selected Antimalarial Plants. Conclusion. Appendix.

Medicinal Plants and Malaria

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      Publisher CRC Press Inc
      Published 22 January 2016
      ISBN-13 9781498744676
      978-1498744676
      ISBN-10 1498744672
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      Agriculture and agribusiness Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics Botany and plant sciences

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease that affects millions worldwide, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. The recent emergence and spread of multidrug resistance in parts of Southeast Asia prompts the urgent need for novel and effective therapy against the disease. Medicinal Plants and Malaria: Applications, Trends, and Prospects highlights the therapeutic potential of plants for treating malaria. It collates useful information on malaria, current prevention and treatment, and scientific research carried out.

      This up-to-date book details the medicinal plant species used in treating malaria and describes the plant parts used, methods of preparation, and doses where available. The book begins with a brief introduction of malaria, and covers its epidemiology and implications on public health, the life cycle of Plasmodium parasites, clinical presentation of the disease, currently available antimalarial drugs and their roles in therapy, and medicinal

      Table of Contents

      Malaria: An Overview. Current Antimalarial Drugs. Research on Medicinal Plants for Malaria. Selected Antimalarial Plants. Conclusion. Appendix.

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