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This work is the first monograph devoted solely to __Bombax ceiba__, popularly known as the Red Silk Cotton Tree. Consisting of seven chapters, it covers all relevant aspects of this plant, from its historical and spiritual importance, to its botanical characterization, pharmacognostical details and ethnobiological uses, to its scientific validation in various animal and human studies. Each part of the tree is of medicinal value and possesses many novel chemical constituents such as shamimicin, bombasin, bombamalone, bombamaloside etc. along with other bioactive secondary metabolites. The book presents the chemical structures of the most important constituents and highlights various pharmacological activities, predominantly antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-mutagenic, hypoglycemic, hypotensive, hepatoprotective and fibrinolytic, which may prove to be a source for the development of a novel phyto-pharmaceutical agent to treat diabetes, heart disease and cancer. In addition, separate chapters deal with the commercial and ecological significance of __B. ceiba__, as well as a case study on its conservation. Numerous color illustrations are included to identify the plant and to justi

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Author

Vartika Jain, Surendra K. Verma (auth.)

Publisher

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9783642279034

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Science, Biology