Ioan Grozescu

By Adina Elena Segneanu, Ioan Gozescu, Anamaria Dabici, Paula Sfirloaga and Zoltan Szabadai

Part of the book: Macro To Nano Spectroscopy

By on Neda, Paulina Vlazan, Raluca Oana Pop, Paula Sfarloaga, Ioan Grozescu and Adina-Elena Segneanu

Part of the book: Analytical Chemistry

By Adina- Elena Segneanu, Paula Sfirloaga, Ionel Balcu, Nandina Vlatanescu and Ioan Grozescu

Part of the book: Environmental and Industrial Corrosion

By Adina Elena Segneanu, Cristina Orbeci, Carmen Lazau, Paula Sfirloaga, Paulina Vlazan, Cornelia Bandas and Ioan Grozescu

Part of the book: Water Treatment

By Adina-Elena Segneanu, Florentina Cziple, Paulina Vlazan, Paula Sfirloaga, Ioan Grozescu and Vasile Daniel Gherman

Part of the book: Biomass Now

By Adina‐Elena Segneanu, Silvia Maria Velciov, Sorin Olariu, Florentina Cziple, Daniel Damian and Ioan Grozescu

Currently, wide world research is focused on sustainable development and the demand for innovative clean technologies, nevertheless natural potential reconsideration could represent a viable solution for the identification and design of new pharmacological agents from renewable resources. The main reason consists of special properties of these natural derivates: immunomodulating activity with continuously perfectible selectivity and efficiency. Plants and herb extracts have been used for centuries as traditional medicines, throughout the entire world. Romanian phytotherapy represents practically a very important part of our traditional knowledge and heritage. Therapeutic properties of plant active principles still continue to be the subject of many researches. In this chapter, an overview of plant bioactive molecules from the perspective of modern phytochemistry is presented. A special part is devoted to a very special medicinal plant, Viscum album, in particular identification of amino acids and thionins from mistletoe.

Part of the book: Amino Acid

By Adina-Elena Segneanu, Claudiu Cepan, Ioan Grozescu, Florentina Cziple, Sorin Olariu, Sonia Ratiu, Viorica Lazar, Sorin Marius Murariu, Silvia Maria Velciov and Teodora Daniela Marti

Romanian traditional medicine has an extremely old history. The Dacian knowledge of the curative properties of medicinal plants was documented by Herodotus, Hippocrates, Galen, and Dioscorides. It must be emphasized that modern chemical screening has confirmed the therapeutic properties of the medicinal plants used by the Dacians. More interesting is that Dacians used many of these herbs for different dishes. Practically, for Dacians, food was medicine. Recent research on some Romanian medicinal plants has highlighted their pharmacognostical importance. It is known that currently, the importance and dynamics of the research on medicinal plants in the area of drug discovery continues to increase worldwide. The main reason is not only the high efficiency of secondary metabolites in case of serious diseases (cancer, viral infections, malaria, etc.) but also the minimization of the side effects of the synthetic drugs.

Part of the book: Pharmacognosy