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050 _aRS 160 .H45 2012
100 _aHeinrich, Michael
_eauthor
245 0 _aFundamentals of pharmacognosy and phytotherapy /
_cMichael Heinrich [and three others].
250 _aSecond edition.
260 _aEdinburg, New York :
_bElsevier Science,
_cc2012
300 _aix, 326 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm.
365 _bUSD367.42
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aImportance 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
520 _aProvides useful and fascinating insights into the history, botany, chemistry, phytotherapy and importance of medicinal plants in some of today's health care systems.
650 _aPHARMACOGNOSY
700 _aBarnes, Joanne;Gibbons, Simon;Williamson, Elizabeth M.
_eco-author;co-author;co-author
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