Fixed Oils and Fats

The recent progress in medicinal plants, volume 33 is focused on the most comprehensive scientific material about fixed oils and fats of contemporary pharmaceutical importance. Fixed oils and fats are important not only from the nutritional viewpoint, but also in terms of their medicinal or pharmacological properties. This volume aims to describe those important fixed oils and fats in an organized approach. Its contributors are from 13 countries namely Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Poland, Portugal and Spain. This volume is divided into 17 chapters. The first general chapter embraces all the major and minor constituents of fixed oils and fats, their isolation, refining, processing, physico-chemical, analytical, nutritional and medicinal properties; followed by comprehensive monographs of pharmaceutically important fixed oils and fats from nature. Then it states the use of fixed oils in injectables. The next chapters individually e