Berberine-containing plants have been traditionally used in different parts of the world for
the treatment of inflammatory disorders, skin diseases, wound healing, reducing fevers …

The analysis of medicinal plants has had a long history, and especially with regard to
assessing a plant's quality. The first techniques were organoleptic using the physical senses …

Autoreactive inflammatory CD4+ T cells, such as T helper (Th) 1 and Th17 subtypes, have
been found to associate with the pathogenesis of autoimmune disorders. On the other hand …

Introduction Herbal medicines (HM) and their preparations have been widely used for
hundreds of years all over the world. However, they have not been officially recognised due …

Traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) are gaining more and more attention all over the
world, due to their specific theory and long historical clinical practice. But the uncontrollable …

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

Near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy as a rapid and nondestructive analytical technique,
integrated with chemometrics, is a powerful process analytical tool for the pharmaceutical …

Several medicinal and herbal plants properties are related to individual compounds such as
essential oils, terpenoids, flavonoids, which are present in natural products in low …

The variation of light intensity has obvious effects on leaf external morphology, internal
anatomy, and physiological characteristics; it even induces changes in secondary …

Metabolomics, the comprehensive and global analysis of diverse metabolites produced in
cells and organisms, has greatly expanded metabolite fingerprinting and profiling as well as …