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Anusha Natarajarathinam, Doctorate(Northwestern Health Sciences University) **Description** This book explores the importance of medicinal plants and the impact of environmental pollution on them. With the increased environmental condition change, new diseases are evolving every now and then. This book will be an excellent source of information for different types of medicinal plants that can be used for different diseases without any side effects since these natural medicines are more like natural greens that can be eaten every day. The table that details the impact of sulfur dioxide on medicinal plants is one of the unique structural elements of the book. **Purpose** According to the author, the primary purpose of the book is to address the uses of medicinal plants and their adaptation to the evolving environmental pollution. This book covers important information that is needed for this current time and the book meets the objectives by giving enough references and illustrations. It also details how the growth of these medicinal plants is affected because of the changing environmental condition. This information is important for future generations to make sure these plants do not go extinct. **Audience** The primary audience of this book will be herbal medicine students/herbal drug manufacturers. The book meets the needs of the audience. It gives ample examples of environmental pollution and gives an idea of how to grow herbal plants in a polluted environment. This author has previously published two books that talk about herbal medicine and traditional herbal therapy. The author has been in this field for a long time, which gives him the credentials to write this book. **Features** Since this book is a collection of research from various authors who specialize in herbal drugs, it is a great reference for anyone interested in herbal medicine. The book has an enormous number of references that can help give a detailed understanding. **Assessment** There is an enormous number of books on the topic of herbal or medicinal plants. This book is unique since it is a collection of various journal papers that discuss the impact of environmental pollution on the survival of medicinal plants, and it also explains to the future generation how to grow medicinal plants within the changing environmental conditions. Therefore, this book will be very useful to herbal medicine students. ----------------------------------------------------------- Weighted Numerical Score: 76 - 3 Stars

"Anusha Natarajarathinam, Doctorate(Northwestern Health Sciences University) **Description** This book explores the importance of medicinal plants and the impact of environmental pollution on them. With the increased environmental condition change, new diseases are evolving every now and then. This book will be an excellent source of information for different types of medicinal plants that can be used for different diseases without any side effects since these natural medicines are more like natural greens that can be eaten every day. The table that details the impact of sulfur dioxide on medicinal plants is one of the unique structural elements of the book. **Purpose** According to the author, the primary purpose of the book is to address the uses of medicinal plants and their adaptation to the evolving environmental pollution. This book covers important information that is needed for this current time and the book meets the objectives by giving enough references and illustrations. It also details how the growth of these medicinal plants is affected because of the changing environmental condition. This information is important for future generations to make sure these plants do not go extinct. **Audience** The primary audience of this book will be herbal medicine students/herbal drug manufacturers. The book meets the needs of the audience. It gives ample examples of environmental pollution and gives an idea of how to grow herbal plants in a polluted environment. This author has previously published two books that talk about herbal medicine and traditional herbal therapy. The author has been in this field for a long time, which gives him the credentials to write this book. **Features** Since this book is a collection of research from various authors who specialize in herbal drugs, it is a great reference for anyone interested in herbal medicine. The book has an enormous number of references that can help give a detailed understanding. **Assessment** There is an enormous number of books on the topic of ""herbal or medicinal plants."" This book is unique since it is a collection of various journal papers that discuss the impact of environmental pollution on the survival of medicinal plants, and it also explains to the future generation how to grow medicinal plants within the changing environmental conditions. Therefore, this book will be very useful to herbal medicine students. ----------------------------------------------------------- Weighted Numerical Score: 76 - 3 Stars"

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Azamal Husen served as Professor & Head, Department of Biology, University of Gondar, Ethiopia and is a Foreign Delegate at Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia. He specializes in biogenic nanomaterial fabrication and application, plant responses to environmental stresses and nanomaterials at the physiological, biochemical and molecular levels, herbal medicine, and clonal propagation for improvement of tree species, and has published over 200 research articles. He is contributed to R&D projects of World Bank, ICAR, ICFRE, JBIC etc. He is on the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. Husen has been on the Editorial Board and the panel of reviewers of several reputed journals. He is a Fellow of the Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, and a Member of the International Society of Root Research, Asian Council of Science Editors, and INPST. He is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Plant Physiology, and a Series Editor of Exploring Medicinal Plants (Taylor & Francis Group, USA); Plant Biology, Sustainability, and Climate Change (Elsevier, USA); and Smart Nanomaterials Technology (Springer Nature, Singapore).

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