Fundamentals of pharmacognosy and phytotherapy
By: Michael Heinrich ... [et al.] ; foreword, A. Douglas Kinghorn ; epilogue, J. David Phillipson ; illustrations by Debbie Maizels and Simon Gibbons
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780702033889
Subjects: Phytotherapy; Vegetable Materia medica; Pharmacognosy; Methods; Medicinal Plants
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Importance of plants in modern pharmacy and medicine; title: Pharmacognosy and its history : people, plants, and natural products; title: General principles of botany : morphology and systematics; title: Families yielding important phytopharmaceuticals; title: Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacy; title: Natural product chemistry; title: Methods in natural product chemistry; title: Anticancer natural products; title: Production, standardization, and quality control; title: Toxicity of herbal constituents; title: What makes phytomedicines unique?; title: Traditional systems of herbal medicine; title: Complementary/alternative medicine; title: The gastrointestinal and biliary system; title: The cardiovascular system; title: The respiratory system; title: The central nervous system; title: Infectious diseases; title: The endocrine system; title: The reproductive and urinary tracts; title: The musculoskeletal system; title: The skin; title: The eye; title: Ear, nose, and orthopharynx; title: Miscellaneous supportive and protective therapies for stress, ageing, cancer, and debility.