scholarly journals Progress in the use of DNA barcodes in the identification and classification of medicinal plants

2021 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 111691
Author(s):  
Jie Yu ◽  
Xi Wu ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
Steve Newmaster ◽  
Subramanyam Ragupathy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Dna Barcodes

“The Art or Mystery of Physick” – Asante Medicinal Plants and the Western Ordering of Botanical Knowledge

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 27-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom C. McCaskie
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
West African ◽  
Tabular Form ◽  
The West ◽  
Global Expansion ◽  
The Core ◽  
Botanical Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Longue Duree

Abstract:This paper deals with aspects of the still relatively neglected history of African medicinal plants. The core of the paper is a discussion in tabular form of the plants collected in the West African forest kingdom of Asante in 1817 by Henry Tedlie, a member of the well known English mission led by Thomas Bowdich. More generally, the paper considers episodes in the accumulation of Akan, Asante, and African plant specimens by Europeans, and the eventual classification of these in a western authorized botanical taxonomy that is now in worldwide use. The gathering of potentially medicinal plants is a little studied facet of European global expansion, from exploration to colonialism and beyond, and of the sovereign scientific orthodoxy that became established alongside it. The paper frames and discusses relevant details of this process over thelongue durée, from pre-Linnaean taxonomies to current controversies over bioprospecting.

Climate and categories: Two key elements for understanding the Mesoamerican hot-cold classification of illnesses and medicinal plants

2021 ◽  
Vol 266 ◽  
pp. 113419
Author(s):  
Karina Yaredi García-Hernández ◽  
Heike Vibrans ◽  
Patricia Colunga-GarcíaMarín ◽  
Luis Alberto Vargas-Guadarrama ◽  
Marcos Soto-Hernández ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants

Identification and classification of medicinal plants in Epimedium

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Ren ◽  
Meng-yue Guo ◽  
Xiao-hui Pang
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants

scholarly journals Medicinal Plants Segmentation using Thresholding and Edge based Techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6S4) ◽  
pp. 71-76
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Know How ◽  
Medicinal Value ◽  
Texture Characteristics ◽  
Different Shapes ◽  
The Common ◽  
Edge Based ◽  
Processing Techniques

Medicinal value is the integral essence and active ingredients in plants. Knowledge about medicinal plants is more essential to mankind. Manual identification of medicinal plant requires prior information and needs the assistance of botanist because all the plants have similar color, shape and texture characteristics and it is time consuming process. Due to this reason it is very much essential for Pharmacists, Botanist and Ayurveda Practitioners to know how to identify medicinal plants through computer technologies. Image processing technology is used for identification and classification of medicinal plants. The following three general phases of image processing techniques are applied to all types of images namely pre-processing, segmentation and feature extraction. Among all the stages of image processing, segmentation phase partition an image into number of regions and segment the object from background. It improve the representation of an image into more meaningful and easier to analyze the features. The medicinal plants segmentation is carried out in this proposed work. The common and famous segmentation techniques like edge detection and thresholding methods are applied on different shapes of flowers, leaves and fruits/seeds images. This paper explores the comparisons of above two methods and effects of filtering and enhancement techniques.

scholarly journals Traditional and Modern Uses of Saffron (Crocus Sativus)

Cosmetics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mzabri ◽  
Addi ◽  
Berrichi
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Folk Medicine ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Crocus Sativus ◽  
Pharmacological Activities ◽  
Aromatic And Medicinal Plants ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Components

The Aromatic and Medicinal Plants sector has undergone a remarkable evolution, especially during the last decade. The global market is moving more and more towards products of natural origin. Indeed, of the 4200-existing plant in Morocco, 800 are listed as aromatic and medicinal plants. Among these plants, saffron is a source of income for many areas of Morocco. Saffron, the dried stigma of the Crocus sativus flower, is considered among the main terroir products of Morocco. Saffron has accompanied all civilizations, whether for its culinary role, for its quality of dye or its ancestral virtues rooted in folk medicine. This review highlights the main components of saffron, and the pharmacological activities that result from it and make this product a serious therapeutic hope. Then, a classification of uses of saffron was carried out according to its uses, traditional, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and perfumery without forgetting its use a spice incorporated in many dishes around the world.

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