Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy

"Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy" is an important and timely book that will add to this growing interest in the use and study of medicinal plants, herbs and other natural products. It will meet the need for a modern, up-to-date textbook for students in a wide range of disciplines, including pharmacy, herbalism, complementary and alternative medicine. The four authors - Professor Michael Heinrich, Dr Joanne Barnes, Dr Simon Gibbons and Dr Elizabeth Williamson - are all experts in their respective fields, whose collective knowledge gives both diversity and authority to this important new volume.

ISBN 0443071322   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780443071324 (What's this?)   Pages 320 Publisher Elsevier Health Sciences   Volumes 1 Imprint Churchill Livingstone   Weight (grammes) 695 Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 21 Oct 2003   Height (mm) 246 Non-book description book   Width (mm) 189 Library of Congress RS164   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 615.321   Academic level Tertiary education

Pt. A		Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy
Sect. 1		Phytotherapy and pharmacognosy		3
1		Importance of plants in modern pharmacy and medicine		4
2		Pharmacognosy and its history: people, plants and natural products		8
Sect. 2		Basic plant biology		23
3		General principles of botany: morphology and systematics		24
4		Families yielding important phytopharmaceuticals		32
5		Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacy		48
Sect. 3		Natural product chemistry		59
6		Natural product chemistry		60
7		Methods in natural product chemistry		106
8		Anticancer natural products		129
Sect. 4		Plant extract derived pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals		143
9		Production, standardization and quality control		144
10		Characteristics of phytomedicines		160
Sect. 5		Medicinal plants in selected healthcare systems		169
11		Traditional systems of herbal medicine		170
12		Complementary/alternative medicine		184
Pt. B		Important Natural Products and Phytomedicines Used in Pharmacy and Medicine
13		The gastrointestinal and biliary system		199
14		The cardiovascular system		215
15		The respiratory system		222
16		The central nervous system		234
17		Infectious diseases		245
18		The endocrine system		253
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"This is the first book that I have encountered which combines the compounds and plants found in standard pharmacognosy textbooks, i.e. those used in orthodox Western medicine, with the 'new phytopharmaceuticals' which have become established in Western culture over the last 20 years. The medical establishment in this environment is finally catching up with the practices of the general population and so this book is an excellent choice for those who wish to investigate which of the many plants available have some scientific credence.I shall be adding this book to the Essential Reading list for all of the undergraduate students on our pharmacy degree course and would encourage all those involved in teaching pharmacy students to do the same." "P.J. Houghton, Department of Pharmacy, King's College London," Journal of Ethnopharmacology, November 2003the title suggests, the book is divided into two main parts. Part A, which is titled "Fundamentals of pharmacognosy," begins with a br

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