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Bioprospecting of Plant Essential Oils for Medicinal Uses

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Essential oils of plant origin have a long history of use by various civilizations in the world. They find place in almost all traditional systems of medicine like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, and Chinese traditional system of medicine. Essential oils extractable by steam distillation and various solvents from different parts of plants constitute complex mixtures of low molecular weight compounds. Terpenes and terpenoids form the major constituents of essential oils and determine the aroma as well as biological properties. Traditionally essential oils are prescribed by the healers for a vareity of ailments ranging from skin infections to cancer. Many of these treatments have stood the test of time. As such essential oils offer tremendous scope for reverse pharmacological studies. With the use of HPTLC, HPLC, GC, NMR, GCMS, and the entry of phytochemists, the essential oil research has matured in to a science of its own. We are presenting an overview of the biological properties and potential applications of essential oils in medicine.

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Raut, J.S., Karuppayil, S.M. (2014). Bioprospecting of Plant Essential Oils for Medicinal Uses. In: Fulekar, M., Pathak, B., Kale, R. (eds) Environment and Sustainable Development. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1166-2_5

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