Fundamentals of pharmacognosy and phytotherapy - Heinrich, Michael, 1957 July 4-; Barnes, joanne; Gibbons, simon; Willmson , elizabeth m (Edinburgh : Elsevier, 2012)
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 chemistry -- Anticancer natural products -- Production, standardization, and quality control -- Toxicity of herbal constituents -- What makes phytomedicines unique? -- Traditional systems of herbal medicine -- Complementary/alternative medicine -- The gastrointestinal and biliary system -- The cardiovascular system -- The respiratory system -- The central nervous system -- Infectious diseases -- The endocrine system -- The reproductive and urinary tracts -- The musculoskeletal system -- The skin -- The eye -- Ear, nose, and orthopharynx -- Miscellaneous supportive and protective therapies for stress, ageing, cancer, and debility.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Pharmacognosy; Materia medica, Vegetable; Plants, Medicinal; Pharmacognosy -- methods; Phytotherapy -- methods