EVALUATION OF PHYTOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF PLANTS OF GENUS HAWTHORN (CRATAEGUS L.) GROWING IN LITHUANIA
INTRODUCTION
For the last fifteen years, the attention of doctors and their patients on drugs and food supplements of herbal origin has been continuously increasing. The growing interest in raw plant materials is expanding the possibilities of use of these materials in the industries of medicine, cosmetics and food as well as encouraging assessment and description of natural resources using new modern methods.
Scientific research on natural herbal resources has bee receiving special attention in the European Union. In recent years, a number of important documents have been published in the European Union, which declare the aims of ensuring the use and quality of natural herbal resources, such as Good Agricultural Practice document, Points to consider on Good agricultural and collection practice for starting materials of herbal origin, a long term vision of the future of herbal biotechnology in Europe Plants for the Future.
Cardiovascular system diseases constitute one of the most urgent health problems. The range of effective herbal preparations for the target phytotherapy of cardiovascular system diseases is not wide. Hawthorn preparations are a promising drug for the treatment of cardiovascular system diseases, whose pharmacological effects have been substantiated by scientific studies.
Throughout the territory of Lithuania, three kinds of hawthorn can be found growing... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050920_110042-50028 |
| Date | 20 September 2005 |
| Creators | Jakštas, Valdas |
| Contributors | Ložienė, Kristina, Vainauskas, Paulius, Janulis, Valdimaras, Kupčinskienė, Eugenija, Gudienė, Vilma, Navalinskienė, Meletėlė, Bernatonienė, Rūta, Savickas, Arūnas, Savickienė, Nijolė, Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050920_110042-50028 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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