This book highlights the importance of traditional medicines, focuses on the standardization of herbal medicine and evaluates opportunities for advancing drug research. It addresses issues in utilization of medicinal plants and shares the importance of herbs in neutraceutics. It provides most competitive techniques being used in research.

About the Author

Dr. Parimelazhagan Thangaraj, completed his graduation from St. Joseph's College (Autonomous), Trichy and Ph.D from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. His areas of specialization include Bioprospecting of medicinal plants. He is currently engaged in compilation and documentation on available knowledge on valuable plant resources to prove their utility scientifically through detailed phytochemical, biological and pharmacological investigations, isolation and characterization of bioactive compounds from potential medicinal plants, their interaction with proteins and mechanism of actions. He has 15 years of research and 7 years of teaching experience. Added to the credits, he had authored quite a few books and book chapters in his felid of specialization. He has filed four patents and has more than 65 research publications in international and national peer reviewed journals. Currently, he is engaged in the investigation to find out some novel herbal drugs and nutraceutical product to treat some of the most common human diseases like diabetes and cancer.

Book Information
ISBN 9780815370529
Author Parimelazhagan Thangaraj
Format Hardback
Page Count 382
Imprint CRC Press Inc
Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
Weight(grams) 725g