By Maurice M. Iwu
This finished booklet records African vegetation used for sensible and medicinal meals. It comprises greater than 60 certain monographs of African meals, describing meals with a variety of features similar to prebiotic, probiotic, satiety, immune modulation, stress-reduction, activities functionality, psychological acuity, sleep-supporting, metabolic syndrome, antioxidant, and unsaturated fat. Plant description, botanical names and synonyms, plant half used, habitat and distribution, people use, dietary content material, and chemistry are all totally certain. The booklet highlights indigenous African nutrients processing applied sciences as much as the trendy period
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CRC Press, Boca Raton, Preface page. 8. Muaka, M. , and Okwe, A. N. 2010. Diab Metab Syndr Clin Res Rev 4: 132. 9. Aggarwal, B. , Van Kuiken, M. , Iyer, L. , Harikumar, K. , and Sung, B. 2009. Molecular targets of nutraceuticals derived from dietary spices: Potential role in suppression of inflammation and tumorigenesis. Exp Biol Med 234: 825–849. 10. Bengmark, S. 2013. Gut microbiota, immune development and function, Pharmacol Res 69: 87–113. 11. Erridge, C. 2011. Food accumulation of stimulants of Toll-like receptor (TLR)-2 and TLR4 in meat products stored at 5°C.
Molmol) (vol. 3, p. 247), Harpagophytum procumbens (vol. 3, p. 182), and Prunus africana (vol. 2, p. 246). When plants that occur in Africa and other regions of the world are included, the number of species can be adjusted to 12 out of the 118 species reviewed in the monographs. In the food sector, however, the continent has made a very substantial contribution to the major food crops of the world with many important species such as coffee, sorghum, oil palm, cow pea, millets, and cocoa. 19 The presentations in the chapters that follow are on the fundamental role of functional foods selected from the vast biodiversity of the continent.
Another ancient African physician is the scholar and scribe Hesy-Re, who lived also about 2600 bc. According to the writer 21 22 Food as Medicine Ghalioungui, Hesy-Re was the chief of dentists and physicians during the Third Dynasty, a period in African history usually associated with the building of the pyramids. During the same period in history, there was also the great healer Meri-Ptah. These ancient African healers and those that lived after them had an elaborate materia medica, which consisted of mixtures of various herbs, animal parts, minerals, and clays.