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Forest Products with Health-Promoting and Medicinal Properties

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Forests are a rich renewable source of health-promoting and ­medicinal products. Not only the trees but also berries, nuts and mushrooms in forests contain a multitude of natural bioactive compounds which can be used in ­health-promoting products and medicines. In addition to the main structural ­components that trees contain, namely cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin, ­thousands of ­bioactive ­compounds have been identified. Forest products have always had a key role in ­traditional medicine which continues to be of great importance, ­especially in developing countries. In the industrialized countries, the pharmaceutical ­industry is again increasingly looking at plant-derived natural drugs. Plant-derived compounds help to build a bridge between the traditional medical drugs in developing countries and the modern pharmaceuticals in the developed countries. Plant-derived bioactive compounds serve especially as ­preventive agents helping to maintain health.

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    Christos Gallis

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  3. Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Paraskevi Moutsatsou

  4. Finnish Forest Research Institute, Parkano, Finland

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Gallis, C. et al. (2011). Forest Products with Health-Promoting and Medicinal Properties. In: Nilsson, K., et al. Forests, Trees and Human Health. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9806-1_3

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