International Conferences

Recommended Conferences for Medicinal Herbs

Medicinal Herbs

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As per available reports about 25 Open Access Journals, 20 Conferences, 100 open access articles are presently dedicated exclusively medicinal herbs and about 182 conference proceedings are being published on medicinal herbs.

Herbal medicine is the study and use of medicinal properties of plants. The scope of herbal medicine is sometimes extended to include fungal and bee products, as well as minerals, shells and certain animal parts. Pharmacognosy is the study of all medicines that are derived from natural sources. The bark of willow trees contains large amounts of salicylic acid, which is the active metabolite of aspirin. Willow bark has been used for millennia as an effective pain reliever and fever reducer. Plants have the ability to synthesize a wide variety of chemical compounds that are used to perform important biological functions, and to defend against attack from predators such as insects, fungi and herbivorous mammals. At least 12,000 such compounds have been isolated so far; a number estimated to be less than 10% of the total. Chemical compounds in plants mediate their effects on the human body through processes identical to those already well understood for the chemical compounds in conventional drugs; thus herbal medicines do not differ greatly from conventional drugs in terms of how they work. This enables herbal medicines to be as effective as conventional medicines, but also gives them the same potential to cause harmful side effects.
The use of plants as medicines predates written human history. Ethnobotany (the study of traditional human uses of plants) is recognized as an effective way to discover future medicines. In 2001, researchers identified 122 compounds used in modern medicine which were derived from "ethnomedical" plant sources; 80% of these have had an ethnomedical use identical or related to the current use of the active elements of the plant. Many of the pharmaceuticals currently available to physicians have a long history of use as herbal remedies, including aspirin, digitalis, quinine and opium.
The use of herbs to treat disease is almost universal among non-industrialized societies, and is often more affordable than purchasing expensive modern pharmaceuticals. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 80 percent of the population of some Asian and African countries presently uses herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care. Studies in the United States and Europe have shown that their use is less common in clinical settings, but has become increasingly more in recent years as scientific evidence about the effectiveness of herbal medicine has become more widely available.

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Scope and Importance:
Many of the pharmaceuticals currently available to physicians have a long history of use as herbal remedies, including opium, aspirin, digitalis, and quinine. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 80 percent of the population of some Asian and African countries presently uses herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care. Pharmaceuticals are prohibitively expensive for most of the world's population, half of which lives on less than $2 U.S. per day. In comparison, herbal medicines can be grown from seed or gathered from nature for little or no cost.
The use of, and search for, drugs and dietary supplements derived from plants have accelerated in recent years. Pharmacologists, microbiologists, botanists, and natural-products chemists are combing the Earth for phytochemicals and leads that could be developed for treatment of various diseases. In fact, according to the World Health Organisation, approximately 25% of modern drugs used in the United States have been derived from plants. Among the 120 active compounds currently isolated from the higher plants and widely used in modern medicine today, 80 percent show a positive correlation between their modern therapeutic use and the traditional use of the plants from which they are derived. More than two thirds of the world's plant species - at least 35,000 of which are estimated to have medicinal value - come from the developing countries.[verification needed] At least 7,000 medical compounds in the modern pharmacopoeia are derived from plants In many medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) significant variations of plants characteristics have been ascertained with varying soil traits, and the selective recovery and subsequent release in food of certain elements have been demonstrated. Great attention must be paid to choose soil and cropping strategies , to obtain satisfactory yields of high quality and best-priced products, respecting their safety and nutritional value.

List of Best International Conferences:

1. Plant Science Conference, September 21-23, 2015 San Antonio, USA

2. 5^th Agriculture and Horticulture Conference

June 27-29, 2016 Cape Town, South Africa

3. 2^nd Food Safety and Regulatory Affairs Conference, June 06-08, 2016 London, UK

4.  Euro Biomass Conference, August 01-03, 2016 Birmingham, UK

5. 5^th Biodiversity Conference, March 10-12, 2016 Madrid, Spain

6. 2^nd Geology Conference, April 21-22, 2016 Dubai, UAE

7. Pollution Control and Sustainable Environment Conference
April 25-26, 2016 Dubai, UAE

8. Plant Physiology Conference, June 09-11, 2016 Dallas, USA

9. 5^th Earth Science and Climate Change Conference
July 25-27, 2016 Bangkok, Thailand

10. 6^th Biotechnology Conference, October 05-07, 2015 New Delhi, India

11. World Bio Summit, November 02-04, 2015 Dubai, UAE

12. 1^st Proximal Sensing Supporting Precision Agriculture Conference, Italy

13. Agricultural Statistics 2015 Conference, Malaysia

14. 5^th Organic Agriculture Sciences Conference, Slovakia

15. 7^th Crop Science Congress, China

16. 1^st Plant Protection Congress 2015, Germany

17. Perennial Biomass Crops for a Resource Constrained World, Germany

18. Agriculture, Ecology and Biological Engineering Conference, Turkey

19. 3^rd Sustainable Environment and Agriculture Conference, USA

20. 6^th Agriculture and Animal Science Conference, China

21. Sustainable Agriculture Technologies Conference, Thailand

22. 3^rd Food and Agricultural Sciences Conference, UAE

Relevant Associationa/Societies:

American Agricultural Law Association, USA
American Farm Bureau Federation, USA ‎
Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies, Canada
National Association of Wheat Growers, USA
African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association, Africa
American Association of Cereal Chemists, USA
American Poultry Association, USA
American Seed Trade Association, USA
Crop Science Society of America, USA
Western Society of Crop Science, USA
Crop and Weed Science Society, USA
Agriculture & Applied Economics Association, USA
Virginia Soybean Association, USA
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, USA
The Royal Agricultural Society of England, UK
International Society for Horticultural Science, Belgium
The Horticultural Society of India, India
Ethiopian Horticulture Development Agency, Ethiopia
National Horticultural Society of France, France
Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, New Zealand
Australian Organic Farming and Gardening Society, Australia
Wildflower Society of Western Australia, Australia
American Horticultural Society, USA
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, USA
International Food Policy Research Institute, USA
International Fund for Agriculture Development, Italy
Consortium for International Crop Protection, USA
Asian Association for Agricultural Engineering, China
Tropical Agricultural Association, UK
Canadian Society for Horticultural Science, Canada

Relevant Companies:

Dole Food Company, USA
Mycogen Seeds, USA
Kinze Manufacturing, Inc., USA
Seaboard Corporation, USA
Burpee Seeds, USA
Cargill, USA
Cavendish Farms, Canada
Chiquita Brands International, USA
ContiGroup Companies, Belgium
Fredericksburg Farmers Cooperative, USA
Riceland Foods, USA
Zeeland Farm Services, USA
Vermeer Company, USA
Dupoint, USA
Pioneer, USA
CABI, UK
Agria Corporation, China
AgriSA, South Africa
Agrium, USA
BASF, Germany
Alberta Wheat Pool, Canada
Bevo Agro Incorporated, Canada
Ceres Incorporated, Canada
Danisco, USA
Foundation for Agronomic Research, USA
Heritage Foods, India
MFA Incorporated, USA
Monsanto, USA
Swire Group, UK
The Mosaic Company, USA
Wayne Farms, USA

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