Editors:
- Focuses on the effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine especially plant derived effects on parasites
- Compares the effects of plant treatment to the effects of existing chemotherapeuticals
- Explores the means of traditional Chinese and Asian methods for curing human infections caused by important parasites
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Parasitology Research Monographs (Parasitology Res. Monogr., volume 6)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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 the earth to the other. Furthermore the slow but constant global warming offers new opportunities for many agents of diseases to become established in new areas. Therefore it is essential that we develop precautions in order to avoid epidemics or even pandemics in overcrowded megacities or at the large-scale farm animal confinements that are needed to secure a steady flow of food in the crowded regions of the world.
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Cell Biology and Parasitology, Heinrich Heine University Department of Zoomorphology, Düsseldorf, Germany
Heinz Mehlhorn
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Department of Parasitology, Sun Yat-sen University Zhongshan School of Medicine, Guangzhou, China, People's Republic
Zhongdao Wu
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Chongqing Medical University Pathogenic Biology, Chongqing, China, People's Republic
Bin Ye
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Treatment of Human Parasitosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Editors: Heinz Mehlhorn, Zhongdao Wu, Bin Ye
Series Title: Parasitology Research Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39824-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-39823-0Published: 10 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51346-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-39824-7Published: 30 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2192-3671
Series E-ISSN: 2192-368X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 274
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 117 illustrations in colour
Topics: Parasitology, Medicine/Public Health, general, Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Tropical Medicine