TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heinrich, Michael
AU  - Barnes, Joanne;Gibbons, Simon;Williamson, Elizabeth M.
TI  - Fundamentals of pharmacognosy and phytotherapy
SN  - 9780702033889
AV  - RS 160 .H45 2012  
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Edinburg, New York
PB  - Elsevier Science
KW  - PHARMACOGNOSY
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - Provides useful and fascinating insights into the history, botany, chemistry, phytotherapy and importance of medicinal plants in some of today's health care systems
ER  -