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Trease and Evans' pharmacognosy /

Evans, William Charles.

Trease and Evans' pharmacognosy / Pharmacognosy William Charles Evans. - Fifteenth Edition , international student edition revised with the assistance of Daphne Evans. - viii, 585 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Introduction -- 1. Plants in medicine: the origins of pharmacognosy -- 2. The scope and practice of pharmacognosy -- 3. Plant nomenclature and taxonomy -- pt. 2. The plant and animal kingdoms as sources of drugs -- 4. Biological and geographical sources of drugs -- 5. A taxonomic approach to the study of medicinal plants and animal-derived drugs -- 6. Pharmacological activities of natural products -- 7. Synergy in relation to the pharmacological action of phytomedicinals / E.M. Williamson -- pt. 3. Principles related to the commercial production, quality and standardization of natural products -- 8. Commerce in crude drugs / R. Baker -- 9. Production of crude drugs -- 10. Plant growth regulators -- 11. Plant cell and tissue culture; biological conversions; clonal propagation -- 12. Phytochemical variation within a species -- 13. Deterioration of stored drugs -- 14. Quality control -- pt. 4. Some current trends -- 15. Plant products and High Throughput Screening / M.J. O'Neill and J.A. Lewis -- 16. Biologically active compounds from marine organisms / G. Blunden -- 17. Traditional plant medicines as a source of new drugs / P.J. Houghton -- pt. 5. Phytochemistry -- 18. General methods associated with the phytochemical investigation of herbal products -- 19. Basic metabolic pathways and the origin of secondary metabolites -- pt. 6. Pharmacopoeial and related drugs of biological origin -- 20. Hydrocarbons and derivatives -- 21. Carbohydrates -- 22. Phenols and phenolic glycosides -- 23. Volatile oils and resins -- 24. Saponins, cardioactive drugs and other steroids -- 25. Miscellaneous isoprenoids -- 26. Cyanogenetic glycosides, glucosinolate compounds and miscellaneous glycosides -- 27. Alkaloids -- 28. Tumour inhibitors from plants / P.M. Dewick -- 29. Antiprotozoal natural products / C.W. Wright -- 30. An overview of drugs with antihepatotoxic and oral hypoglycaemic activities -- 31. Vitamins and hormones -- 32. Antibacterial and antiviral drugs -- 33. Colouring and flavouring agents -- 34. Miscellaneous products -- pt. 7. Plants in complementary and traditional systems of medicine -- 35. Herbal medicine in Britain and Europe: regulation and practice / S.Y. Mills -- 36. Homoeopathic medicine and aromatherapy / M.A. Healy and M. Aslam -- 37. Aspects of Asian medicine and its practice in the West / M. Aslam -- 38. Chinese herbs in the West / S.Y. Mills -- 39. Plants in African traditional medicine -- an overview / A. Sofowora -- pt. 8. Nonmedicinal toxic plants and pesticides -- 40. Hallucinogenic, allergenic, teratogenic and other toxic plants -- 41. Pesticides of natural origin -- pt. 9. Morphological and microscopical examination of drugs -- 42. Plant description, morphology and anatomy -- 43. Cell differentiation and ergastic cell contents -- 44. Techniques in microscopy.


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