The Medicinal Plant Industry - 9781138407794

CRC Press

Presenting a multidisciplinary view of the medicinal plant industry, this book covers its growth. It discusses the need for developing countries to acquire technologies and techniques for programmed cultivation of medicinal plants. It highlights cultivation and climatic variations, biological assessment and formulation, and phytochemical research. > As the medicinal plant industry blooms into a billion dollar business, it reaches beyond collection, propagation, harvesting and sale of crude vegetal drugs into product formulation, packaging and dispensing of sophisticated phyto-pharmaceuticals and herbal preparations. The scientific study of these medicines and the systematic uplifting of the industry to preserve the ancient and serve the modern, is now a global challenge.The Medicinal Plant Industry puts together the various facets of this multi-disciplinary industry and its global interest. It discusses the dire need for developing countries to acquire technologies and techniques s