Essentials of Botanical Extraction:Principles and Applications

The book under review consists of ten well-written chapters, which cover all the aspects of profiling crude botanical extracts for rapid identification of bioactive compounds. Historically, throughout our evolution, the importance of plant-derived bioactive phytocompounds for health and procuring medicinal agents has been enormous. Due to diverse medicinal potential and biochemical activities of natural products, nearly every civilization from different time periods and ethnic groups have accumulated experience and knowledge about their uses.