Author Description

The book talks about intellectual property rights and royalty issues of the folk healers and maintains stress on conservation of medicinally important red listed plants. Above all, the book is providing updated information on phytochemicals isolated from medicinal plants used in the treatment of malaria by traditional medicine mode.<br/>Red listed plants having significant pharmaceutical significance as demonstrated by in-vivo and in-vitro studies need immediate conservation solutions. Drug-resistance is posing challenge to the scientific community and malaria is one of the all time challenge. With chloroquinine and artemsinin showing resistance, need of the hour is to study the potential of promising herbal drugs and isolates. The topics are relevant to intellectual property rights, biopiracy, red listed and antimalarial herbal drugs serving utility to the pharmaceutical and herbal drug industry.<br/>The book shall be of utility to courses related to herbal medicine, phytotherapy, pharmacognosy, Traditional medicine, AYUSH, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Ethnopharmacology.