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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 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacSciBio |
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