1. New strategies for traditional medicine / Geoffrey A. Cordell -- 2. Developing better herbal medicines in the post-genomic era / Andrea Furtado Macedo and Luciana Furtado Macedo -- 3. Revitalization of the knowledge of herbs : a way forward to discovery of new drugs / Dhanashri Hardas, Jose Luis Rios and Mahendra Rai -- 4. Ethnobotanical uses of the native flora from Brazilian north-eastern region / Ana Maria Benko-Iseppon. [and others] -- 5. Diversity and uses of the genus Croton (Euphorbiaceae) in northeastern Brazil / Marccus Alves. [and others] -- 6. Ethnomedical knowledge among the Quilombolas from the Amazon region of Brazil with a special focus on plants used as nervous system tonics / Danilo Ribeiro de Oliveira. [and others] -- 7. Advances in the knowledge of medicinal plants in Eastern Andalusia, Spain / Guillermo Benitez, Maria Reyes Gonzalez-Tejero and Joaquin Molero-Mesa -- 8. Tropical propolis : recent advances in chemical components and botanical origin / Osmany Cuesta-Rubio, Anna Lisa Piccinelli and Luca Rastrelli -- 9. Anti-malarial plants used in folk medicine in Bangladesh / Mohammed Rahmatullah, Taufiq Rahman and Rownak Jahan -- 10. Usnea sulcata Motyka : an ethnomycological review of its use in traditional medicine / Mariela Alejandra Marinoff and Jose Luis Martinez -- 11. Sirukurinjan : an ancient remedy for a modern incurable disease, diabetes / S. Raguapthy. [and others] -- 12. Herbal drugs used for domestic animals / Lorella Severino and Letizia Ambrosio -- 13. Endophytes from medicinal plants as novel sources of bioactive compounds / Bita Zaferanloo, Peter J. Mahon and Enzo A. Palombo -- 14. Advances in medicinal plants with antitumoral activity / Maria Pilar Gomez-Serranillos Cuadrado. [and others] -- 15. Medicinal plants : how are they used to treat neurological diseases? / Fabiola Dominguez. [and others] -- 16. Inflammatory diseases : mechanisms and natural remedies / Rabih S. Talhouk, Ralph Salloum and Fadia R. Homaidan -- 17. Recent advances to evaluate anti-diabetic medicinal plants / Mahomoodally Mohamad Fawzi -- 18. Botanical origin and biological activity of propolis / Ramon Enrique Robles-Zepeda. [and others] -- 19. Bioactivity of plant essential oils / Talal A. Zari -- 20. Antibacterial and antiviral effects of aromatic plant-derived essential oils : a scientific and medicinal approach / Jurgen Reichling -- 21. Strategies of solvent system selection for the isolation of natural products by countercurrent chromatography / Gilda Guimar�es Leit�o, Fernanda das Neves Costa and Fabiana de Souza Figueiredo.