Overview
- New data on medicinal plants for cognitive impairment
- Covers traditional Thai medicine
- Written by a leading scholar in this discipline
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Plant Science (BRIEFSPLANT)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
This book provides a description of cognitive impairment in the elderly population through the lens of Thai Traditional Medicine as it is practiced in northern Thailand. It provides an overview of Thai Traditional Medicine and the memory loss presented in elderly dementia. Some medicinal plants used by traditional Thai healers to treat cognitive decline and memory issues in the elderly are reviewed.
Medicinal Plants of Northern Thailand for the Treatment of Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly provides readers with the detailed description of the in vitro screening of ten plants and those results. The bioactivity of these single plants exemplifies the success of using an ethnobotanical filter to identify plants with cognitive enhancing activity.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Lisa Offringa, Ph.D.
Stanford Prevention Research Center
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, CA USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Medicinal Plants of Northern Thailand for the Treatment of Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly
Authors: Lisa Offringa
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Plant Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10241-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10240-5Published: 05 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10241-2Published: 21 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2192-1229
Series E-ISSN: 2192-1210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 84
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Sciences, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Clinical Psychology