Handbook of Essential Oils Volume 5
An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aromatic compounds from plants. Some plants like the bitter orange are sources of several types of essential oils. Essential oils are generally extracted by distillation or solvent extraction. They are used in perfumes cosmetics and bath products for flavouring food and drink and for scenting incense and household cleaning products. Various essential oils have been used medicinally at different periods in history. Medical application proposed by those who sell medicinal oils ranges from skin treatment to remedies for cancer and is often based on historical use of these oils for these purposes. Such claims are now subject to regulation in most countries and have grown more vague to stay within these regulations. Interest in essential oils has revived in recent decades with the popularity of aromatherapy a branch of alternative medicine which claims that the specific aromas carried by essential oils have curative effects. Oils are volatillsed or diluted in a carrier oil and used in massage diffused in the air by a nebuliser or by heating over a candle flame or burnt as incense.
Handbook of Essential Oils Volume 4
Handbook of Essential Oils Volume 4 An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aromatic compounds from plants. Some plants like the bitter orange are sources of several types of essential oils. Essential oils are generally extracted by distillation or solvent extraction. They are used in perfumes cosmetics and bath products for flavouring food and drink and for scenting incense and household cleaning products. Various essential oils have been used medicinally at different periods in history. Medical application proposed by those who sell medicinal oils ranges from skin treatment to remedies for cancer and is often based on historical use of these oils for these purposes. Such claims are now subject to regulation in most countries and have grown more vague to stay within these regulations. Interest in essential oils has revived in recent decades with the popularity of aromatherapy a branch of alternative medicine which claims that the specific aromas carried by essential oils have curative effects. Oils are volatillsed or diluted in a carrier oil and used in massage diffused in the air by a nebuliser or by heating over a candle flame or burnt as incense.
Handbook of Essential Oils Volume 3
Band.hook of 'Essential Olis An essential oil is a concentrated, hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aromatic compounds from plants. Some plants, like the bitter orange, are sources of seve ra l types of essential oils. Essential oils are generally extracted by distillation or solvent extraction. Th ey are used in perfumes, cosmetics and bath products, for flavouring food and drink , a nd for scenting incense and household cleaning products.
Handbook of Essential Oils Volume 1
Handbook of Essential Oils Volume 1 An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aromatic compounds from plants. Some plants like the bitter orange are sources of several types of essential oils. Essential oils are generally extracted by distillation or solvent extraction. They are used in perfumes cosmetics and bath products for flavouring food and drink and for scenting incense and household cleaning products. Various essential oils have been used medicinally at different periods in history. Medical application proposed by those who sell medicinal oils ranges from skin treatment to remedies for cancer and is often based on historical use of these oils for these purposes. Such claims are now subject to regulation in most countries and have grown more vague to stay within these regulations. Interest in essential oils has revived in recent decades with the popularity of aromatherapy a branch of alternative medicine which claims that the specific aromas carried by essential oils have curative effects. Oils are volatillsed or diluted in a carrier oil and used in massage diffused in the air by a nebuliser or by heating over a candle flame or burnt as incense.
Handbook of Essential Oils Vol. 2
Handbook of Essential Oils Vol. 2, An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aromatic compounds from plants. Some plants like the bitter orange are sources of several types of essential oils. Essential oils are generally extracted by distillation or solvent extraction. They are used in perfumes cosmetics and bath products for flavouring food and drink and for scenting incense and household cleaning products. Various essential oils have been used medicinally at different periods in history.
Economics of Agricultural Commodities Spice and Medicinal Plants
The information available on the economic aspects of various agricultural commodities is quite meagre and also very widely scattered. It is difficult at present to pick up a specific publication which supplies relevant information comprehensively for the students, agricultural economists, administrators, policy planners as well as all those involved in production, raising resources, trade and industry concerned with agricultural products. This series entitled Economics of Agricultural Commodities aims to fill this gap and provide complete, well researched and comprehensively compiled information. The study covers different topics in 8 volumes as follows: 1. Spices and Medicinal Plants 2. Fruits and Nuts 3. Vegetables and Floriculture 4. Foodgrains 5. Fibers 6. Oilseeds 7. Plantation Crops?Tea, Coffee, Rubber, Sugarcane, Tobacco 8. History and Development of Agriculture and Forestry This volume broadly covers all major spices and medicinal plants. Although the list is long, 48 spices and 47 medicinal plants have been described, giving historical background, varieties, culinary properties and uses, medicinal/therapeutical properties and uses, production systems, statistical data relating to area and production, and yield in India as compared to other countries. The data collected, compiled and evaluated is based on the information provided by different sources like Spices Board, various commodity boards. Directorate of Economics and Statistics in the Ministry of Agriculture, Horticulture Board of India, FAO, USDA, etc. This volume aims to serve as a comprehensive compilation and a storehouse of information for the students, researchers, agricultural economists and all those who require this information for development of entrepreneurship and utilization of the natural resources for the benefit of the country. PC Bansil phD heads the Techno Economic Research Institute, New Delhi, founded by him in 1984. He belongs to the first batch of Indian Economic Service and has worked with the FAO for about 15 years in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Rome, Zambia and Libya. He has written 34 books, besides a large number of reports and papers prepared for various governments. He has published over 400 papers in specialized technical journals. His work experience relates to the formulation, implementation and evaluation, and regional plans for agriculture, statistics, marketing, livestock, irrigation, fisheries, forestry, wildlife, national parks, tourism, agro-industries and social sectors like demography, health, education and housing, etc. as well as project identification, formulation and evaluation in these fields. During his FAO assignments in Sri Lanka, Zambia and Libya as Senior Planning Advisor, he undertook microlevel studies on the improvement of rural marketing. He was appointed by the Planning Commission as Chairman of the Tenth Plan Working Group on Animal Husbandry Economics and Statistics. He has completed the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations sponsored study ?Livestock in India 2000?2030?.
Dictionary of Medical Plant
Dictionary of Medicinal Plants is a compilation of more than 1200 species known to have medicinal use for man giving full details of their chemical constituents medicinal uses and how to cure specific diseases. The plant species mentioned cover geographically many parts of the globe. The genera are arranged alphabetically followed by the species name and family to which it belongs and also common vernacular name. The book will be of immense use to pharmacists doctors of homoeopathy ayurvedic herbal medicine and to all students interested in medicinal plants.
Cultivation and Uses of Aromatic Plants
Cultivation and Uses of Aromatic Plants The Indian sub-continent blessed toith theworld's richest resources of aromatic plant and their uses since time immemorial in different form by the collection from wild sources. India comprises its botanical wealth is about 45,000 plant species including 18,500 flowering and essential oil bearing plants. The aromatic plants are the main source of essential oils which is complex mixture of naturally occurring odoriferous compounds that exists in form of oil glands of flowers, leaves, woods, barks, roots and seeds. Chemically essential oils are hydrocarbons and oxygenated hydrocarbons which can be grouped into terpenes, esters, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, phenols, etc. In other words, essential oils are volatile extracts of plants used as base material in perfumes (fragrances and flavours), cosmetics, aromatherapy, attars and aromatherapy. Presently, fragrant raw materials are collected from wild and well as cultivated sources for completing the demand of the perfumery and cosmetic industry. This demand in organized sector of industry has led to their introduction into agriculture which besides meeting the demand and reasonable price has also enable the produces to maintain standards on yield, quality, potency and chemical constituents of the produce. A large number of aromatic plants have thus come under systematic research efforts through multi-disciplinary investigations in India since independence. This activity has generated a wealth of valuable information on several facets of agricultural productivities like crop improvement, introduction of improved agro-technologies, extraction methodology, faster instrumental analysis, product development and multifarious uses of essential oils and their produce. This material is widely scattered in research journals, proceedings of seminars and symposia, technical bulletins, monographs and technology papers. We have made an efforts to bring all this information together in the form of a book "Cultivation and Uses of Aromatic Plants" for associated farmers, entrepreneurs, students, researchers, traders, exporters, user industries and libraries. In day-to-day health care needs undisputed role ofaromatic plants and its essential oils is of utmost important and these have to cultivated and propagated, because it has necessitated to reduce the pressure on natural resources, as forests, till date, continue to provide major share of raw material to the perfumery, pharmaceutical and other related industries and to check the use of spurious substitutes and adulterants, which have resulted in the deterioration of the standard of the products and preparations. The systematic and large scale cul tivation and processingis only solution for providing genuine raw material for associated industries and minimize the over- exploitation of our genetic resources from forests. The present book deals with improved cultivation and post-harvest technologies of 15 major aromatic plants, distillation technologies and their diverse uses based on experimental work and available authentic literatures. The colour photographs of aromatic crops have been soot-out in FFDC herbal garden and experimental fields for proper identification.
Colour Atlas of Medicinal Plants (Common Names & Classifications)
Colour Atlas of Medicinal Plants (Common Names & Classifications) Natural products from the medicinal plant source are the main cast of modem drug in clinical use. Herbs are used by man from the beginning of human culture as a source of medicine. WHO estimates that more than 80 % of the worlds population relies on plants as the primary medicinal source for the treatment of common diseases. People not only use herbs as medicines but also as food and cosmetics. Traditional medical practitioners use a variety of plants in their treatment and are very much successful in their approach but they are unable to communicate their ideas to the modem world, which require vernacular names and botanical names. This book will not only serve for the students and faculties of technical courses but it will also do well for vaidyas and hakims too, who could make use of this book by its photographs in communicating their ideas.
Chemistry of Natural Products Volume II
It comprises five main topics namely: Terpenoids; Chemistry and Biochemical Action of Vitamins; Natural Dyes; Purines Pyrimidines and Nucleic Acids; and Natural Products: Colour Reaction Tests. The original style of presentation has been strictly adhered to in respect of introduction nomenclature classification structures extraction isolation characteristic features constitution and synthesis of certain selected important constituents from Natural Products. A few biosynthetic pathways have also been discussed with proper explanations wherever necessary. Due care has been taken to provide correct chemical structures of various plant constituents based on the Natural Products according to the latest Merck Index so that the end-users and teachers may find it authentic. Appropriate explanations of various courses of sunthctic routes have been explored to render the text matter easily comprehensible as well as convincing. Both M.Sc. Students specializing in Chemistry Biotechnology Biochemistry Pharmaceutical Chemistry Molecular Biology Microbiology and other allied disciplines may find the present textbook a pathfinder.
Chemistry of Natural Products
It includes three main topics namely: Carbohydrates; Amino Acids Peptides and Proteins; and Alkaloids. Each chapter deals with introduction nomenclature classification treatment of some important constituents from natural products ?structures extraction isolation constitution and total synthesis. Biosynthetic pathways have been described with proper explanations wherever necessary. Particular care and attention has been given to the correct chemical structures of various constituents based on Natural Products as per the Merck Index so that the users may find it more useful and authentic. Detailed explanations of yarious courses of reactions have been incorporated to make things easily acceptable and understandable to its valued readers. Both BSc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. Students specializing in Chemistry Biotechnology Biochemistry Pharmaceutical Chemistry Molecular Biology Microbiology and other allied fields yyill certainly find the textbook quite useful and a dependable source of information.
Chemistry of Natural Products Vol. 3
Specific care and persistent treatment of the subjected matter throughout the various aforesaid chapters has been maintained strictly with particular references to: introduction, nomenclature, classification, chemical structures, extraction, isolation, characteristics features, constitution, and total synthesis of some selected cardinal constituents derived solely from the Natural Products. Most synthesis approaches of an array of discussed Natural Products have been explained adequately for the benefit and interest of the end-users of this unique complication of the Natural Products. The latest 'Merk Index' forms the basis of almost all the Chemical Structures so that the brilliant students, teachers, researchers, and scientists involved deeply in mustering the complicated task of 'Chemistry of Natural Products' into a rather easy, lucid, and simple comprehensive subject of great interest and fervor. The M.Sc. Students specializing in Chemistry, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Microbiology ,and other allied disciplines may find the present textbook a real pathfinder.
Atlas of Microscopy of Medicinal Plants Culinary Herbs and Spices
This book is intended primarily for use in the verification of materials for ease of location we have arranged the contents in alphabetical order according to their commonly accepted names. We have also provided separate indices of Synonyms and Botanical Sources. All the drawings in this book have been made solely from previously authenticated samples. For the drugs and spices which usually occur commercially in the powdered form number 60 grade powders were prepared for examination but for the culinary herbs which are more usually available in the whole or broken condition fragments of a suitable size were examined. The drawings were made at a magnification of 500 using a camera lucida from fresh mounts prepared as described in the section on Practical Methods. The descriptions similarly are intended to give a detailed account of the actual characters seen in the fragments rather than the full histology of the plant organ from which the materials are derived.
