Handbook of medicinal plants edited by Zohara Yaniv and Uriel Bachrach

Trends and challenges in phytomedicine / Hildebert Wagner -- History of application of medicinal plants in china / Chang-Xiao Liu -- Ethnopharmacology of traditional chinese drugs from medicinal plants / Chang-Xiao Liu -- Research and development of new drugs originating from chinese medicinal plants / Chang-Xiao Liu -- African medicinal plants / Ruth Kutalek, Armin Prinz -- Dilemmas and solutions : native american plant knowledge / Daniel E. Moerman -- Ethnobotany and ethnomedicine of the amazonian indians / Sir Ghillean T. Prance -- Healers and physicians in ancient and medieval mediterranean cultures -- Alain touwaide -- Remedies from the bush : traditional medicine among the australian aborigines / Emanuela Appetiti -- Production and breeding of medicinal plants / Éva Németh -- Biological screening of medicinal plants / Dong Mei Zhang, Ming-Wei Wang -- Biotechnology in medicinal crops improvement / Efraim Lewinsohn, Ya'akov Tadmor --

In vitro cultivation of medicinal plants / Christoph Wawrosch -- Medicinal plants in the prevention and therapy of cancer / David Mantle -- Phytochemicals and prevention of coronary heart disease / D. Francesco Visioli, Simona Grande, Claudio Galli -- A modern look at folkloric use of anti-infective agents / Lester A. Mitscher -- Use of medicinal plants in cns disorders / Peter John Houghton -- Herbal medicine in endocrinology and metabolic disease / Graham Pinn -- Bioactive saponins from plants : recent developments / Lacaille-Dubois, Marie-Aleth -- Introduction -- Natural products and herbal medicines in the gastrointestinal tract -- Zohar kerem -- Challenges and threats to interdisciplinary medicinal plant research / Michael Heinrich.