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Table of Contents
Preface vii
About the Editors xiii
Contributors xv
Chapter 1 Traditional Uses of Spices: An Overview Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara Cemile Koca Sanjit Dey Prashasnika Gehlot Supachi Yodkeeree Divya Danda Bokyung Sung Bharat B. Aggarwal 1
Chapter 2 Black Pepper (Pipe nigrum) and its Bioactive Compound, Piperine Krishnapura Srinivasan 25
Chapter 3 Cardamom (Electtaria cardamomum) and Its Active Constituent, 1,8-cineole Archana Sengupta Shamee Bhattcharjee 65
Chapter 4 Molecular Targets and Health Benefits of Cinnamon Kiran Panickar Heping Cao Bolin Qin Richard A. Anderson 87
Chapter 5 Cloves (Eugenol) Yoshinori Kadoma Yukio Murakami Toshiko Atsumi Shigeru Ito Seiichiro Fujisawa 117
Chapter 6 Coriander Sanjeev Shukla Sanjay Gupta 149
Chapter 7 Fenugreek (Diosgenin) Jayadev Raju Chinthalapally V. Rao 173
Chapter 8 Dially Sulfied from Garlic Girija Kuttan Punathil Thejass 197
Chapter 9 Ginger (6-gingerol) Nidhi Nigam Jasmine George Yogeshwar Shukla 225
Chapter 10 Kalonji (Thymoquinone) Ahmed O. Kaseb Abdel-Hafez A. Selim 257
Chapter 11 Kokum (Garcinol) Manoj K. Pandey Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara Bharat B. Aggarwal 281
Chapter 12 Capsaicin – A Hot Spice in the Chemoprevention of Cancer Joydeb Kumar Kundu Young-Joon Surh 311
Chapter 13 Rosemary (Rosmarinic Acid) Jongsung Lee Eunsun Jung Jienny Lee Deokhoon Park 341
Chapter 14 Mint and Its Constituents Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara Jing-Gung Chucj Cemile Koca Sanjit Dey 373
Chapter 15 Turmeric (Curcumin) Jen-Kun Lin Shoei-Yn Lin Shiau 403
Index 425