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Title: Forest Products with health-promoting and medicinal properties
Other Titles: Forests, trees and human health
Authors: Gallis, Christos
Di Stefano, Mariella
Moutsatsou, Paraskevi
Sarjala, Tytti
Virtanen, Vesa
Holmbom, Bjarne
Buhagiar, Joseph A.
Katalanos, Alexandros
Keywords: Plant bioactive compounds
Health promotion
Traditional medicine
Pharmaceutical industry
Forest products -- Biotechnology
Issue Date: 2011
Publisher: Springer
Citation: Gallis, C., Di Stefano, M., Moutsatsou, P., Sarjala, T., Virtanen, V., Holmbom, B., Buhagiar, J. A. & Katalanos, A. (2011). Forest Products with health-promoting and medicinal properties. In K. Nilsson, M. Sangster, C. Gallis, T. Hartig, S. de Vries, K. Seeland & J. Schipperijn (Eds.), Forests, Trees and Human Health (pp. 41-76). Dordrecht: Springer.
Abstract: Forests are a rich renewable source of health-promoting and medicinal products. Not only the trees but also berries, nuts and mushrooms in forests contain a multitude of natural bioactive compounds which can be used in health-promoting products and medicines. In addition to the main structural components that trees contain, namely cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin, thousands of bioactive compounds have been identified. Forest products have always had a key role in traditional medicine which continues to be of great importance, especially in developing countries. In the industrialized countries, the pharmaceutical industry is again increasingly looking at plant-derived natural drugs. Plant-derived compounds help to build a bridge between the traditional medical drugs in developing countries and the modern pharmaceuticals in the developed countries. Plant-derived bioactive compounds serve especially as preventive agents helping to maintain health.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/103195
ISBN: 9789048198054
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