Herbal Medicines. A Boon for Healthy Human Life

Table of Contents

1. Herbal drugs and alternative methods used to treat Neurodegenerative diseases. 2. Review on correlations between depression and nutritional status of elderly patients. 3. Herbal Medicines for Alzheimer's Disease 4. Herbal remedies against Huntington's disease: preclinical evidences and future directions 5. Herbal Medicine for Mood Disorder

ORAL HEALTH 6. Leveraging Microbicidal and Immunosuppressive Potential of Herbal Medicine in Oral Diseases

METABOLIC DISORDERS AND OVERALL HEALTH 7. Herbal Medicines for the Treatment of Metabolic Disorders 8. Herbal Medicines for Diabetes: Insights and recent advancement 9. Diabetes, a Metabolic Disorder: Herbal medicines on rescue 10. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Herbal Medicine 11. Traditional Herbal Medicines as Bio resource and Health Security 12. Traditional Nutritional and Health Practices to Tackle the Lifestyle Diseases 13. Impact of Pre-Biotics and Probiotics Consumption on Human Health 14. Ethnic foods and concentrates: Its role in health protection

SKIN DISORDERS 15. Herbal Medicines and Skin Disorders 16. Herbal Medicine and common dermatological diseases 17. Role of Herbal Products as Therapeutic Agents Against Ultraviolet Radiation-Induced Skin Disorders. 18. On Bioactive Compounds and the Endophyte community in Medicinal Plants: Bioprocessing Nature's Abundance for Skin Disorder Treatment

REPRODUCTIVE DISORDERS 19. Future of Herbal Medicines in assisted reproduction 20. Herbal Medicine to Cure Male Reproductive Dysfunction 21. Polycystic Ovarian syndrome: causes and Therapies by herbal medicine

INFECTIOUS DISEASES 22. Emerging alternative vaccines and treatment strategies for tuberculosis 23. Role of Herbal medicines in combating antibiotic resistance in infectious diseases 24. Ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological approaches used in the management of tuberculosis

CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS 25. Targeting fibrosis by herbal medicine to prevent heart failure 26. Natural Antioxidant Therapy in Oxidative Stress induced Myocardial Ischemia

CANCER 27. Targeting metabolism with herbal therapy: a preventative approach towards cancer 28. Uses of Herbal Medicines in Palliative Care of Cancer Patients 29. Effect of Amygdalin and dichloroacetate on human breast cancer 30. Herbal Medicines and Bladder Cancer 31. Cannabis-derived compounds for cancer treatment

CONCERN 32.�Do we really fathom the molecular biology data resulting from our studies on traditional herbal medicine?

Authors

Hifzur Siddique Senior Assistant Professor, Molecular Cancer Genetics and Translational Research Lab, Aligarh Muslim University, India. Dr. Siddique is working as a Senior Assistant Professor at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, India, and got post-doctoral trainings at the University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota & University of S. California, USA. His research specializations are Cancer Biology, Pharmacology, and Toxicology. He is now the Programme Director of Molecular Cancer Genetics and Translational Research program at AMU. He is, so far, published more than 75 original research papers in journals like Nature Communications, Hepatology, Stem Cells, Clinical Cancer Research, Cancer Research, Genes and Cancer, Seminars in Cancer Biology, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, Dalton Transections, Cor-ordination Chemistry Reviews, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, etc. He is the recipient of several academic awards such SBUR-Young Scientist Travel Award, USA; IABS-Outstanding Cancer Research Award, India; SPER-Innovative Researcher Award, India; "AEDS-Distinguish Scientist Award,� India, etc. He is a member of several scientific societies/associations such as the American Association of Cancer Research, National Academy Sciences, India, Indian Association for Cancer Research, etc. He regularly delivers invited talks, filed four patents, and 26-awards/honors to his credit. Further, he serves as an editorial member of five Journals and reviewers of more than 50 reputed international journals. Multiple Government Agencies of India support his ongoing research. Maryam Sarwat Senior Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Noida, India. Dr. Maryam Sarwat is an Indian Citizen, working as an Associate Professor in the Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Noida. She has obtained her Ph. D. in 2007 and completed postdoctoral research at ICGEB, New Delhi. She has received several research grants from various R & D agencies such as DST, DBT, CCRUM and SERB in India. She has presented her findings in scientific conferences in various countries like Germany, Czech Republic and France etc. Dr. Sarwat has mentored six PhD and fifteen Masters' students. She has more than 55 international publications in reputed journals and three patents to her credit. She is the recipient of the prestigious "Scientist of the Year Award� in 2015. Dr. Sarwat has published two volumes of "Stress Signaling in Plants, Genomics and Proteomics Perspective� with Springer Nature in 2013 and 2017. She has also authored two books with Elsevier entitled 'Senescence Signaling and Control in Plants' in 2018 and 'Saffron: The Age-Old Panacea in a New Light' in the early 2020. She has also published the title 'Environment and Human Health' through King Abdul Aziz University Press in 2020. Her two volumes on 'Ethnic Knowledge on Biodiversity, Nutrition and Health Security' are due for publication by Taylor and Francis in 2021. She has served various international journals as reviewer