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By
Michael Heinrich, Head of Centre for Pharmacognosy & Phytotherapy, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK
Joanne Barnes, Centre for Pharmacognosy & Phytotherapy, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK
Simon Gibbons, Centre for Pharmacognosy & Phytotherapy, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK
Elizabeth Williamson, BSc, PhD, MRPharmS, FLS, Professor of Pharmacy and Director of Practice, University of Reading, UK; Editor-in-chief of Phytotherapy Research;
Member of the Herbal Drugs Committees for The British Pharmacopoeia and The European Pharmacopoeia
Description
This resource covers the fundamentals of pharmacognosy and phytotherapy for students, practicing pharmacists, herbalists, and others with an interest in the medicinal uses of plants.
Audience
pharmacy students, herbal medicine and complementary medicine students, pharmacists and herbalists, doctors and 'naturopaths' (natural medicine practitioners)
Contents
Part A: Fundamentals of Pharmacology
Section 1. Phytotherapy and Pharmacognosy
1. Importance in modern
pharmacy and medicine
2. Pharmacognosy and its history: people, plants and natural products
Section 2. Basic plant biology
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General principles of botany: morphology and systematics
4. Families yielding important phytopharmaceuticals
5. Ethnobotany and
ethnopharmacology
Section 3. Natural product chemistry
6. Natural products chemistry
7. Principles of natural product
chemistry and separation
8. Anticancer natural products
Section 4. Plant extract derived pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals
9. Production, standardisation and quality control
10. Characteristics of phytomedicines
Section 5. Medicinal Plants in selected
other health care systems
11. Traditional systems of herbal medicine
12. Complementary/alternative medicine
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B: Important Natural Products and Phytomedicines used in Pharmacy and Medicine
13. The gastrointestinal and biliary
system
14. The Cardiovascular system
15. The respiratory system
16. The central nervous system
17. Infectious diseases
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The endocrine system
19. The reproductive and urinary tracts
20. The musculoskeletal system
21. The skin
22. The eye
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Ear, nose and orthopharynx
24. Miscellaneous supportive therapies for stress, ageing, cancer and debility
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 320 pages, publication date: OCT-2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07132-4
ISBN-10: 0-443-07132-2
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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