Fundamentals of pharmacognosy and phytotherapy /
Contributor(s): Heinrich, Michael
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BookPublisher: Edinburgh : Elsevier, 2018Edition: 3rd ed.Description: ix, 326 p. : ill.ISBN: 9780702070303; 070203388X.Subject(s): Pharmacognosy | Materia medica, Vegetable | Plants, Medicinal | Pharmacognosy | PhytotherapyDDC classification: 615/.321 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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