Nature Helps... (Record no. 107535)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783642193828
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-3-642-19382-8
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Classification number QL1-991
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Subject category code PSV
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Subject category code SCI070000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 590
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mehlhorn, Heinz.
Relator term editor.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Nature Helps...
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title How Plants and Other Organisms Contribute to Solve Health Problems /
Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Heinz Mehlhorn.
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Edition statement First.
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-- Berlin, Heidelberg :
-- Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
-- 2011.
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Extent XIII, 375 p.
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Series statement Parasitology Research Monographs ;
Volume number/sequential designation 1
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Formatted contents note Activity of Plants Used for the Treatment of Diarrhoea by Indigenous Traditional Medicine -- Efficiency of Different Types of Plant Extracts Against Mosquitoes -- Natural Remedies in the Fight Against Mosquitoes -- The Neem Tree Story - Extracts that Really Work -- The Efficacy of Extracts from Plants - Especially from Coconut and Onion - Against Tape- and Roundworms -- Curcumin: A Natural Herb Extract with Antiparasitic Properties -- Marine Organisms and Their Prospective Use in Therapy of Human and Animal Health -- Benefits and Failure of Imported Animals in the Fight Against Pests -- Helminth Therapy to Treat Crohn’s and Other Autoimmune Diseases -- Insects Help to Solve Crimes -- Use of Triatomid Bugs to Gain Blood Probes from Zoo Animals -- Xenodiagnosis -- Blowfly Strike and Maggot Therapy: From Parasitology to Medical Treatment -- Extracts from Fly Maggots and Fly Pupae as "Wound Healer" -- Living Medication. Overview and Classification into Pharmaceutical Law.
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Summary, etc Nature helps... of course at first itself by developing measures that give bacteria, fungi, plants and animals a chance to be successful in their struggle for life. As a latecomer on Earth, Homo sapiens was gifted with some droplets of the divine spirit of recognition and thus became able to observe, to analyse and recombine skills of other living beings and to use them for his overwhelming career over the last 10,000 years. Of course fungi, plants, animals and even bacteria were primarily used by mankind as food or as lifestyle products such as beer, but soon it became clear that there was much more potential hidden in these organisms and that they could be used for other purposes, too. Extracts of plants and fungi were recognized as powerful remedies, as medicines, as insecticides or acarizides, as repellents against parasites or even as weapons, e.g. when poisonous compounds from frogs or plants were applied to arrowheads. Over the last 110 years the pharmaceutical industry has often simulated nature by analyzing complex organic substances taken from living organisms and then producing by synthesis absolutely pure compounds, which mostly consisted of only one single active substance. These products had the advantage of acting against precisely one target and thus produced fewer possible side effects than the complex plant extracts. However, the more serious side effect was that disease agents could develop resistances to pure medicinal products much more easily. Thus after 70 years of excellent prospects for chemotherapy, some dark clouds appeared and quickly gathered, so that several therapeutic remedies now no longer work. Therefore in many countries - especially in those where the pure chemotherapeutics are too expensive for the poor population - the cry “back to nature” is becoming louder and louder. This has led to an enormous increase of studies that again use natural extracts as remedies in the fight against diseases. The present book summarizes examples of promising aspects in a broad spectrum of applications and shows how extracts derived from bacteria, marine organisms, plants or even animals may help to treat infectious diseases, how such organisms may keep away parasites and pests from the bodies of plants or animals, including humans, and how they can be used directly to aid in diagnosis, promote wound healing and even to help catch criminals. These 15 chapters offer not only basic research on these different fields, but also show how useful and effective products can be developed from research.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medical parasitology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ecology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Microbiology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Zoology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life Sciences.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Zoology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Parasitology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Eukaryotic Microbiology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ecology.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element SpringerLink (Online service)
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9783642193811
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Uniform title Parasitology Research Monographs ;
Volume number/sequential designation 1
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19382-8
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