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Essential Oils: Historical Significance, Chemical Composition & Medicinal Uses & Benefits
Miranda Peters (Ed.)
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Description for Essential Oils: Historical Significance, Chemical Composition & Medicinal Uses & Benefits
Hardback. Editor(s): Peters, Miranda. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PNNP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 187 x 262 x 17. Weight in Grams: 556.
The use of essential oils by civilisations constitutes a common practice since antiquity. In earlier times, China, India and the Middle East used herbs and oils in cooking, cosmetics, medicine and in religious rituals. These substances come from a secondary metabolism of plants and are associated with several functions necessary for their survival, such as the defense against microorganisms, predators and attraction of pollinators. Essential oils are composed of a complex mixture of biologically active substances, lipophilic and volatile, and in most cases derivatives of terpene compounds and in a lower occurrence - phenylpropanoids. They have been long recognised for ... Read more
The use of essential oils by civilisations constitutes a common practice since antiquity. In earlier times, China, India and the Middle East used herbs and oils in cooking, cosmetics, medicine and in religious rituals. These substances come from a secondary metabolism of plants and are associated with several functions necessary for their survival, such as the defense against microorganisms, predators and attraction of pollinators. Essential oils are composed of a complex mixture of biologically active substances, lipophilic and volatile, and in most cases derivatives of terpene compounds and in a lower occurrence - phenylpropanoids. They have been long recognised for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781634843515
SKU
V9781634843515
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