Sixty Medicinal Plants from the Peruvian Amazon: Ecology, Ethnomedicine and Bioactivity

The book provides extensive information on the most important medicinal plants used by local communities in the Peruvian Amazon. A 270 pages text, written both in English and Spanish, aimed to demonstrate that the region is a potential source of new active natural products that can be useful to mankind.

Brief Contents

-Over 100 illustrations, including colour plates and chemical structures
-Scientific and common names, botanical and ethnopharmacological information
- Complete phytochemical and pharmacological studies
- Extensive references section at the end of each chapter
- Glossary