1. Ethnomedicinal plants : progress and the future of drug development / Jose Luis Rios -- 2. Spasmolytic effect of constituents from ethnomedicinal plants on smooth muscle / Rosa Martha Perez Gutierrez -- 3. Brazilian ethnomedicinal plants with anti-inflammatory action / Jose Carlos Tavares Carvalho -- 4. Women's knowledge of herbs used in reproduction in Trinidad and Tobago / Cheryl Lans and Karla Georges -- 5. Medicinal value of polyunsaturated and other fatty acids in ethnobotany / Sabreen F. Fostok, Antonios N. Wehbe, and Rabih S. Talhouk -- 6. Smoke of ethnobotanical plants used in healing ceremonies in Brazilian culture / Raquel de Luna Antonio. [et al.] -- 7. Traditional medicines as the source of immunomodulators and stimulators and their safety issues / Mahmud Tareq Hassan Khan -- 8. Traditional knowledge about Indian antimicrobial herbs : retrospects and prospects / Deepak Acharya and Mahendra Rai -- 9. Medicinal usefulness of Woodfordia fruticosa (Linn.) Kurz / Shandesh Bhattarai and Dinesh Raj Bhuju -- 10. Chemistry and pharmacology of Azadirachta indica / Rosa Martha Perez Gutierrez --11. Ethnomedicine of Quassia and related plants in tropical America / Rafael Ocampo and Gerardo Mora -- 12. An inventory of ethnomedicinal plants used in Tunisia / Borgi Wahida, Mahmoud Amor, and Chouchane Nabil -- 13. Medicinal plants used in folk medicine for digestive diseases in central Spain / M.E. Carretero Accame. [et al.] -- 14. Traditional medicinal products and their interaction with estrogens receptors : implications for human health / Dieudonne Njamen -- 15. Applications of microarray technology in ethnomedicinal plant research / Mahmoud Youns, Jorg D. Hoheisel, and Thomas Efferth -- 16. Combining ethnobotany and informatics to discover knowledge from data / Jitendra Gaikwad. [et al.] -- 17. Conservation strategies for ethnomedicinal plants / Arun Rijal.