Modern Phytomedicine

Iqbal Ahmad is a senior lecturer of agricultural microbiology at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India, and Principal Investigator of the Medicinal Plants Research Project of the University Grant Commission, New Delhi, India. A graduate of AMU, he worked as a research scientist at the Himalaya Drug Company before moving to the AMU's Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. He has so far screened more than 150 traditional Indian medicinal plants for their biological activities and potential prospection. Farrukh Aqil is Project Fellow working on the major research project on medicinal plants at the AMU Department of Agricultural Microbiology. His current work includes biological activities of Indian medicinal plants against MDR bacteria, antioxidants, and the antimutagenicity potential of bioactive plant extracts. Mohammad Owais currently holds a faculty position at the Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit at Aligarh Muslim University, India. He trained at CDRI, Lucknow and IMTECH, Chandigarh, and worked during his post doctoral training with Dr. R. C. Gallo's group at the NIH, USA. His present work is focusing on the screening of various herbal drugs for their potential to treat drug resistant infections, and developing and applying drug delivery systems to herbal drugs to assess the efficacy, stability and toxicity in animal models.

• Bioactive Phytocompounds (BPs): New Approach on Modern PhytoscienceQuality Control, Screening, Toxicity and Regulations of Herbal DrugsHerbal Medicine: Prospects and ConstraintsBioactive Phytocompounds and Products Traditionally used in JapanPlant Extracts used to manage Bacterial, Fungal and Parasitic Infections in Southern AfricaBiological and Toxicological Properties of Moroccan Plant ExtractsAnti-MRSA and Anti-VRE Activities of Phytoalexin and Phytoncide Isolated from Tropical PlantsMethods for Testing the Antimicrobial Activity of ExtractsTargeted Screening of Bioactive Plant Extracts and PhytocompoundsActivity of Plant Extracts and Plant-derived Compounds against Drug-resistant MicroorganismsAlternative Holistic Medicinal Approach in Total Management of Hepatic DisordersTraditional Plant and Herbal Remedies Used in the Treatment of Diarrhoeal DiseaseMutagenicity and Antimutagenic Potentials of Plant Extracts and PhytocompoundPotential of Plant-derived Products in the Treatment of Mycobacterial InfectionsEthnomedicinal Antivirals: Scope and OpportunityImmunomodulatory Effects of PhytocompoundsUse of Liposomal Delivery System for Herbal-based Therapeutics

"...Primariliy, this book is dedicated, but also highly recommended, to students, teachers and researchers enganged in universities, R&D insitutions, pharmaceutical or herbal industry, as well as health organizations."Advances in Food Sciences, 07/2007