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| Publisher's Name | Elsevier Limited, |
| Date of Publication | 2018 |
| Extent | xvi, 360p. |
| Other Details | figures, indexed, references, tables |
| Item Descriptor | Providing useful insights into the history, botany, chemistry, phytotherapy and importance of medical plants in some of today's healthcare systems |
| Formatted Content Note | Sections include - Fundamentals of pharmacognosy; 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 analytical chemistry; Isolation and structure elucidation of natural products; Anticancer natural products; Production, quality control and standardization of herbal materials; The complex chemistry and pharmacology of herbal medicines; Toxicity of herbal constituents; Overview of medicinal plants in healthcare systems; Characteristics of traditional medicine systems using herbal substances; Western herbal medicine; 'Oriental' and 'Asian' forms of traditional medicine; African, American and Oceanian traditional medicine using herbal preparations; Complementary/alternative or 'integrative' therapies involving use of plant substances; Herbal medicine interactions; Important natural products and phytomedicines used in pharmacy and medicine; The gastrointestinal and biliary system; The cardiovascular system; The respiratory system; The central nervous system; Infectious diseases; The endocrine system; The reproductive tract; The musculoskeletal system; The skin; The eye; Skin, nose and oropharynx; Weight loss supplements; and Miscellaneous supportive therapies for stress, aging, cancer and debility |
| Level Content-Audience | Undergraduate |
| Subject Entry | Pharmacognosy Medical materials Plants - Medicine Phytotherapy |
| Item Record | Status | Return | Accession No. | Note |
| 1. Main | Normal | Available | A0052844 |