Treatment of human parasitosis in traditional Chinese medicine [electronic resource] / Heinz Mehlhorn, Zhongdao Wu, Bin Ye, editors.
2013
RC119
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Title
Treatment of human parasitosis in traditional Chinese medicine [electronic resource] / Heinz Mehlhorn, Zhongdao Wu, Bin Ye, editors.
ISBN
9783642398247 electronic book
3642398243 electronic book
9783642398230
3642398243 electronic book
9783642398230
Published
Heidelberg : Springer, [2013?]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-642-39824-7 doi
Call Number
RC119
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.9/606
Summary
This book intensively examines the efficacy of plant-derived products that have been used for over a thousand years by practitioners of so-called Traditional Chinese Medicine in the light of recent chemotherapeuticals. The chapters were written by renowned Chinese medical researchers and are supplemented by results obtained in German antiparasitic research projects. Parasites and emerging diseases are a major threat of our time, which is characterized by an enormous increase in the size of the human population and by an unbelievably rapid globalization that has led to the daily transport of millions of humans and containers with goods from one end of the earth to the other. Furthermore the slow but constant global warming offers new opportunities for many agents of diseases to become established in new areas. Therefore it is essential that we develop precautions in order to avoid epidemics or even pandemics in overcrowded megacities or at the large-scale farm animal confinements that are needed to secure a steady flow of food in the crowded regions of the world. Of course intensive research in the field of chemotherapy since 1900 has produced unbelievable breakthroughs in therapies for formerly untreatable and thus deadly diseases. However, a large number of untreatable diseases remain, as well as a constantly growing number of agents of disease that have developed resistances to standard chemical compounds.
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Includes index.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 7, 2013).
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Mehlhorn, Heinz, editor of compilation.
Wu, Zhongdao, editor of compilation.
Ye, Bin, editor of compilation.
Wu, Zhongdao, editor of compilation.
Ye, Bin, editor of compilation.
Series
Parasitology research monographs ; v.6.
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