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This second volume of the book “Seabuckthorn (Hippophae L)-A Multipurpose Wonder Plant” contains 42 excellent papers by experts from several countries like Russia, China, India, Finland, Germany and Central Asia. The book mainly focuses on the Biochemistry and Pharmacology of this multipurpose plant, which grows widely in cold regions of Asia, Europe and introduced in North and South America. The book has been divided in three sections. The first section on “Biochemistry” has 25 papers, which deals with bioactive compounds like vitamins, carotenoids, flavonoids, sterols, tannins, fatty acids, amino acids and minerals etc. in seabuckthorn fruit and leaves. The second section on “Pharmacology” has 12 papers, which deals with the studies on the experimental and clinical trials conducted on the efficacy of seabuckthorn fruit and leaf extracts and oil on various diseases of skin, cardiovascular system, cancer, ulcer and in human being also. The third section “Miscellaneous” has 5 papers, which deals with studies on the ethnobotany, processing technology, methodologies of health food product development and seabuckthorn research in some countries. The book will prove very useful to the researchers, herbal medicine industry, policy makers and all those interesting in knowing more about this multipurpose wonder plant.
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