Natural Products of Silk Road Plants

This latest volume in the series, ‘Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants’ offers a new window to an emerging region not well described for its botanical medicines and herbs, and will provide fresh insight into the chemistry, pharmacognosy and knowledge of medicinal plants.

The Silk Road, a complex network of trade routes linking China with the rest of the Eurasian continent by land and sea, fostered transformation of the ethnic, cultural, and religious identities of diverse peoples. In Natural Products of Silk Road Plants there is a treasury of plants, many indigenous to countries along the trading routes of the Silk Road, that yielded medicines, cereals, spices, beverages, dyes, and euphoric and exotic compounds previously unknown to the rest of the world.

This entry in the Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants series has been prepared for university students of chemistry and ethnobotany and for those wishing to broaden their knowledge. It opens a window on a vast region of Asia not well described for its flora and provides new and fresh insights on:

Significant plants, some endangered
Traditional and modern applications of extracts
The biochemical and pharmacological properties of extracts
Contains over 150 full colour figures

The significance of the Silk Road is being revived today through immense investment by China and other eastern countries in major schemes of transport infrastructure.

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