The South African Herbal Pharmacopoeia: Monographs of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

The South African Herbal Pharmacopeia: Monographs of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants is a collection of 25 original monographs of medicinal plants that are currently under commercialization or have the potential for commercialization into herbal medicinal products for the global marketplace. Chapters include a general overview covering synonyms, common names, conservation status, botany, geographical distribution, ethnopharmacology, commercialization, pharmacological evaluation, chemical profiling and quality control, including HPTLC fingerprint analysis, UPLC analysis, gas chromatography and mid-infrared spectroscopy analysis.

Academics researching pharmacy and analytical chemistry will benefit from the detailed chemical profile on each species presented. Industrial manufacturers of herbal products, herbal medicines, cosmetics, food supplements, and national and international policymakers and regulators will benefit from the overview provided at the beginning of each chapter.

Author: Alvaro Viljoen
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 11/23/2022
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780323997942

About the Author
Viljoen, Alvaro: - Dr. Alvaro Vijoen completed a BSc, BSc Hons. (cum laude) and MSc (cum laude) in Botany at Stellenbosch University (SA). In 1994 Alvaro commenced with a PhD at the University of Johannesburg on the chemotaxonomy of the genus Aloe. In July 2005 he was appointed as a research fellow in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology (Pretoria). More than eighty post-graduate students have graduated under his supervision since 2002. His research interest is the phytochemistry and biological activity of medicinal and aromatic plants indigenous to South Africa. He has authored / co-authored >250 peer reviewed papers mostly on the phytochemical exploration and pharmacological activity of indigenous medicinal and aromatic plants. He has been elected on to the editorial board of the Journal of Essential Oil Research (Francis & Taylor), Phytochemistry Letters (Elsevier) etc, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Ethnopharmacology (Elsevier). In October 2013 Alvaro was awarded the National Research Chair in Phytomedicine a position which he holds concurrently as Director of the SAMRC Herbal Drugs Research Unit in South Africa.Combrinck, Sandra: - Sandra Combrinck completed her MSc degree (cum laude) at Stellenbosch University and was awarded a doctoral degree in Chemistry in 2007 from Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), South Africa. She joined the Department of Chemistry at TUT in 1994, where she was involved in training students enrolled for Analytical Chemistry courses, over a period of 20 years. She developed an interest in medicinal plants, with emphasis on the phytochemical analysis of plant extracts and essential oils. She has done extensive work on the application of essential oils to postharvest pathogen control of fruits. In 2014, Sandra was appointed as a research professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the same institution, where she worked closely with the Chair Phytomedicine Research Group for five years. The proposed regulation of herbal products in South Africa influenced the research direction of the group, with a shift in focus towards quality control of herbal drugs, to support and encourage commercialization of South African flora. Here she was involved in several studies to document the chemical and biological variation within species used as traditional medicines. Sandra has supervised a host of masters and doctoral students, mostly involved in projects investigating the chemistry and bioactivities of medicinal plants. She has published more than 80 articles in ISI accredited journals. Although she retired in 2019, she is still closely involved with the research group at TUT and serves as a managing editor for Journal of Ethnopharmacology (Elsevier).Vermaak, Ilze: - Dr Vermaak completed her BPharm degree at the Medical University of South Africa (MEDUNSA) in collaboration with Technikon Pretoria (2004) and is a registered pharmacist with the South African Pharmacy Council (SAPC). She is appointed in a permanent position as senior lecturer in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) where she is involved in the undergraduate Pharmacy Programme. Her Masters degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences was conferred cum laude in 2009 and she was awarded her doctoral degree in the same field in 2011. Her research interests are focused on the quality control of herbal medicines with a strong emphasis on vibrational spectroscopy including hyperspectral imaging. She has authored/co-authored more than 40 papers published in peer-reviewed high-impact journals and has a current h-index of 18. She has supervised masters and doctoral students and presented her research at various local and international conferences. She is a managing editor for the Journal of Ethnopharmacology (Elsevier), subject editor for Phytochemistry Letters (Elsevier) and serves on the editorial boards of the South African Journal of Botany (Elsevier) and Journal of Biosystems Engineering (Springer).
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