| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 326 pages :) illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
'A new classic' in a new edition! Fully revised and updated throughout New sections on antimicrobials From journal reviews of the previous edition: 'Drawing on their wealth of experience and knowledge in this field, the authors, who are without doubt among the finest minds in pharmacognosy today, provide useful and fascinating insights into the history, botany, chemistry, phytotherapy and importance of medicinal plants in some of today's health care systems. This is a landmark textbook, which carefully brings together relevant data from numerous sources and provides in an authorita |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Pharmacognosy.
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Materia medica, Vegetable.
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Materia medica, Vegetable. (OCoLC)fst01011725
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Pharmacognosy. (OCoLC)fst01060246
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Heinrich, Michael, 1957 July 4-
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Kinghorn, A. Douglas.
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Phillipson, J. David.
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Maizels, Debbie.
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Gibbons, Simon.
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| ISBN |
9780702052316 (e-book) |
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