Therapeutic Use of Medicinal Plants and Their Extracts : Volume 1
Subtitle: Pharmacognosy
Publisher: Springer
Published: Sep 08, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9783319638614
Description: "This volume focuses on the importance of therapeutically active compounds of natural origin. Natural materials from plants, microbes, animals, marine organisms and minerals are important sources of modern drugs. Beginning with two chapters on the development and definition of the interdisciplinary field of pharmacognosy, the volume offers up-to-date information on natural and biosynthetic sources of drugs, classification of crude drugs, pharmacognosical botany, examples of medical application, WHO's guidelines and intellectual property rights for herbal products."--Back cover.
Notes: Source title: Therapeutic Use of Medicinal Plants and Their Extracts: Volume 1: Pharmacognosy (Progress in Drug Research)