Essential Oils : : Sources, Production and Applications / / ed. by Dakeshwar Kumar Verma, Rajendra Chandra Padalia, Charu Arora, Pramod Kumar Mahish.

Essential oils are simply the volatile oils of plants. These are concentrated liquids contain many terpenes, alkaloids and alcohols etc. Various compounds of essential oils have bioactive properties such as antimicrobial, anti-cancer, anti-diabetic, anti-viral and anti-fungal etc. This book describe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter STEM
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Author list
  • Chapter 1 Introduction and general properties of essential oils
  • Chapter 2 Essential oils, applications, and different extraction methods
  • Chapter 3 Sources and raw materials of essential oils
  • Chapter 4 Chemical composition of essential oils – fatty acids
  • Chapter 5 Essential oils and their constituents
  • Chapter 6 Extraction, production, and encapsulation of essential oils
  • Chapter 7 Bioactivity of essential oils – anticancer, anti-HIV, antiparasitic, anti-inflammatory, and other activities
  • Chapter 8 Application of essential oils in industries and daily usage
  • Chapter 9 Application of essential oils in pharmaceutical industry
  • Chapter 10 Application of essential oils in agriculture and veterinary
  • Chapter 11 Application of essential oils in alternative medicine
  • Chapter 12 Toxicity of essential oils
  • Chapter 13 Essential oil screening and bioactive potential of some selected trees from temperate zone of Kumaun Himalaya Uttarakhand
  • Index