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. Ed(S): Mehlhorn, Heinz; Wu, Zhongdao; Ye, Bin - Treatment of Human Parasitosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine - 9783642398230 - V9783642398230
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Treatment of Human Parasitosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Description for Treatment of Human Parasitosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine Hardback. This book examines the efficacy of plant-derived products for curing human infections caused by important parasites that have been used for over a thousand years by practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine in the light of recent chemotherapeuticals. Editor(s): Mehlhorn, Heinz; Wu, Zhongdao; Ye, Bin. Series: Parasitology Research Monographs. Num Pages: 286 pages, 25 black & white illustrations, 117 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MMFP; MMRT; MX; VXHT1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 596.

This book intensively examines the efficacy of plant-derived products that have been used for over a thousand years by practitioners of so-called Traditional Chinese Medicine in the light of recent chemotherapeuticals. The chapters were written by renowned Chinese medical researchers and are supplemented by results obtained in German antiparasitic research projects.

 

Parasites and emerging diseases are a major threat of our time, which is characterized by an enormous increase in the size of the human population and by an unbelievably rapid globalization that has led to the daily transport of millions of humans and containers with goods from one end of ... Read more

 

Of course intensive research in the field of chemotherapy since 1900 has produced unbelievable breakthroughs in therapies for formerly untreatable and thus deadly diseases. However, a large number of untreatable diseases remain, as well as a constantly growing number of agents of disease that have developed resistances to standard chemical compounds.

 

As such, it is not only worthwhile but also vital to consider the enormous amounts of information that have been obtained by human “high cultures”in the past. Examples from the past (like quinine) or present (like artemisinin, a modern antimalarial drug) show that plant extracts may hold tremendous potential in the fight against parasites and/or against vector-transmitted agents of diseases.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Series
Parasitology Research Monographs
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642398230
SKU
V9783642398230
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