Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Oman

Medicinal plants have received an impetus recently due to revival of attention in natural products in form of herbal medicines demanding convincing knowledge on their phytochemistry, status, cultivation and utilization. Medicinal plants in the Sultanate of Oman have tremendous potential in terms of ethnomedicinal and food applications. However, these treasures of Oman have not been fully explored until recently. Several medicinal plants indigenous to Oman have been used for several centuries in form of traditional medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases. The first volume of this book uncovers information about sustainable use of selected medicinal plants, their phytochemistry and efforts made to conserve them to ensured continues supply. This volume reveals systematic information about promising 132 medicinal plants in Oman with botanical names, common names, synonyms, local names, family, habitat and distribution, chemical constituents, cultivation and collection, pharmacological activity, uses (a. common uses; b. traditional uses; therapeutic uses), toxicity and clinical data, status, patents, and their marketed products or industrial application. Each of the 132 plants has a high-resolution color photograph, plant description, and location. The chapters are written by well experienced authors in the field. A uniform chapter structure throughout the book has been designed to keep consistency. This book is especially valuable to academicians, phytochemists, pharmacologists, herbalists, agriculturists, biotechnologists, natural product researchers, and industrialists involved in the production of herbal drugs. Salient Features: Provides common uses, traditional uses, therapeutic uses of 132 medicinal plants. Uncover the detailed phytochemistry of each medicinal plant. Offer systematic information about their geographical distribution and current status of these plants. Updated information about their pharmacology, mechanism of action, and toxicity are mentioned in detail.