Forest Products with Health-Promoting and Medicinal Properties

Abstract

Forests are a rich renewable source of health-promoting and medicinal products. Not only the trees but also berries, nuts and mushrooms in forests contain a multitude of natural bioactive compounds which can be used in health-promoting products and medicines. In addition to the main structural components that trees contain, namely cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin, thousands of bioactive compounds have been identified. Forest products have always had a key role in traditional medicine which continues to be of great importance, especially in developing countries. In the industrialized countries, the pharmaceutical industry is again increasingly looking at

Effect of Gender and Age and Date of Collection on Some Specifications of Gum Excreted From Pistacia Veral. Trees in Mosul

“…Studies showed some medicinal effects such as dropping hypertension and pains in the higher part of the abdomen, gastric pains, indigestion and gastric ulcers (Yousefi, 2016). Also mastic gum and essential oils extracted from pistachios are considered natural antimicrobials which have wide usages in Mediterranean countries and the middle east since ancient eras (Gallis et al, 2011). Concerning recently mastic gum usages, they have been expanded more and more where they were used in making sorting fibers used in surgery for being absorbed by the human body and also used as a sterilization for mouth and stretching for gums (Al-Mofraji et al, 2013).…”