
Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy
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Key Features
Covers the history, biology and chemistry of plant-based medicines
Covers pharmaceutical and neutraceuticals derived from plants
Covers the role of medicinal plants in worldwide healthcare systems
Examines the therapeutics and evidence of plant-based medicines by body system
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
PART A FUNDAMENTALS OF PHARMACOGNOSY
SECTION 1 Phytotherapy and pharmacognosy
1. Importance of plants in modern pharmacy and medicine
2. Pharmacognosy and its history: people, plants and natural products
SECTION 2 Basic plant biology
3. General principles of botany: morphology and systematics
4. Families yielding important phytopharmaceuticals
5. Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacy
SECTION 3 Natural product chemistry
6. Natural product chemistry
7. Methods in natural product chemistry
8. Anticancer natural products
SECTION 4 Plant extract derived pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals
9. Production, standardization and quality control
10. Toxicity of herbal constituents
11. What makes phytomedicines unique?
SECTION 5 Medicinal plants in selected healthcare systems
12. Traditional systems of herbal medicine
13. Complementary/alternative medicine
PART B IMPORTANT NATURAL PRODUCTS AND PHYTOMEDICINES USED IN PHARMACY AND MEDICINE
14. The gastrointestinal and biliary system
15. The cardiovascular system
16. The respiratory system
17. The central nervous system
18. Infectious diseases
19. The endocrine system
20. The reproductive and urinary tracts
21. The musculoskeletal system
22. The skin
23. The eye
24. Ear, nose and orthopharynx
25. Miscellaneous supportive and protective therapies for stress, ageing, cancer and debility
Epilogue
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 360
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
- Published: November 24, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702070082
- eBook ISBN: 9780702070068
About the Authors
Michael Heinrich
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Joanne Barnes
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Jose Prieto-Garcia
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Simon Gibbons
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Elizabeth Williamson
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