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Fundamentals of pharmacognosy and phytotherapy /

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Main Authors: Heinrich, Michael, 1957 July 4- (Author)
Group Author: Barnes, Joanne, 1966- (writer of foreword.); Prieto Garcia, José M. (writer of foreword.); Gibbons, Simon (Professor of medicinal phytochemistry); Williamson, Elizabeth M.; Kinghorn, A. Douglas; Blumenthal, Mark
Published: Elsevier,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Third edition.
Subjects:
Pharmacognosy.
Materia medica, Vegetable.
Carrier Form: xvi, 359 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780702070082 (paperback) :
0702070084 (paperback)
Index Number: RS160
CLC: R93
Call Number: R93/F981/3rd ed.
Contents: Importance of plants in modern pharmacy and medicine -- Pharmacognosy and its history: people, plants and natural products -- General principles of botany: morphology and systematics -- Families yielding important phytopharmaceuticals -- Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacy -- Natural product chemistry -- Methods in natural product analytical chemistry -- Isolation and structure elucidation of natural products -- Anticancer natural products -- Production, quality control and standardization of herbal materials -- The complex chemistry and pharmacology of herbal medicines -- Toxicity of herbal constituents -- Overview of medicinal plants in healthcare systems -- Characteristics of traditional medicine systems using herbal substances -- Western herbal medicine -- 'Oriental' and 'Asian' forms of traditional medicine -- African, American and Oceanian traditional medicine using herbal preparations -- Complementary/alternative or 'integrative' therapies involving use of plant substances -- Herbal medicine interactions -- The gastrointestinal and biliary system -- The cardiovascular system -- The respiratory system -- The central nervous system -- Infectious diseases -- The endocrine system -- The reproductive tract -- The musculoskeletal system -- The skin -- The eye -- Ear, nose and oropharynx -- Weight loss supplements -- Miscellaneous supportive and protective therapies for stress, ageing, cancer and debility.

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