cover image - Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, 4th Edition
ISBN: 9780323834346
Copyright: 2024
Publication Date: 06-20-2023
Page Count: 282
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $59.99

Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, 4th Edition

by Michael Heinrich, Dr rer nat habil MA(WSU) Dipl. Biol. FLS, Joanne Barnes, BPharm PhD MRPharmS FLS, José Prieto-Garcia, Simon Gibbons, BSc MRSC CChem PhD FLS and Elizabeth M. Williamson, BSc(Pharm) PhD MRPharmS FLS

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cover image - Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, 4th Edition
ISBN: 9780323834346
Copyright: 2024
Publication Date: 06-20-2023
Page Count: 282
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $59.99
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    • Introduces the concepts and scope of pharmacognosy
    • Examines the scientific evidence of plant-based medicines for a range of health conditions
    • Extended and updated referencing includes recent reviews, WHO and official documents (open access where available) for quick access to further scientific literature
    • New to this edition

      • Antimicrobial natural products: as antibiotics and antiseptics, and their potential as bacterial resistance modifiers
      • Anticancer natural products: scope now includes their role in chemoprevention and associated anti-inflammatory mechanisms
      • New chapter on pharmacovigilance for herbal medicines and related products
      • Quality assurance and pharmacopoeial methods extended, with many new figures and examples
      • Plant medicines of recent scientific interest (popularity, or notoriety) added throughout
      • An enhanced eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customise your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
    • Antimicrobial natural products: as antibiotics and antiseptics, and their potential as bacterial resistance modifiers
    • Anticancer natural products: scope now includes their role in chemoprevention and associated anti-inflammatory mechanisms
    • New chapter on pharmacovigilance for herbal medicines and related products
    • Quality assurance and pharmacopoeial methods extended, with many new figures and examples
    • Plant medicines of recent scientific interest (popularity, or notoriety) added throughout
  • PART A Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy

    SECTION 1 Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy

    1 Importance of Plants in Modern Pharmacy and Medicine

    2 Pharmacognosy and Its History: People, Plants and Natural Products

    SECTION 2 Medicinal Plant Sciences

    3 General Principles of Botany: Morphology and Systematics

    4 Plant Families Yielding Important Medicines

    5 Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology

    SECTION 3 Natural Products: An Introduction

    6 Natural Product Chemistry

    7 Analytical Methods for Natural Products

    8 Natural Product Isolation and Structure Elucidation

    9 Natural Products With Anticancer and Chemopreventive Effects

    10 Antimicrobial Natural Products

    SECTION 4 Herbal Medicinal Products

    11 The Complex Pharmacology of Herbal Medicines

    12 Production, Quality Control and Standardisation of Herbal Medicines

    13 Toxicity of Herbal Constituents

    14 Herbal Medicine Interactions

    15 Regulation and Pharmacovigilance for Herbal Medicines

    16 Plants in Traditional Medicine Systems

    17 Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Plant Therapies

    PART B Important Plant Medicines

    18 The Gastrointestinal and Biliary System

    19 The Cardiovascular System

    20 Weight-Loss Supplements

    21 The Respiratory System

    22 The Central Nervous System

    23 The Musculoskeletal System

    24 Female Hormonal and Reproductive Conditions

    25 The Male Reproductive System

    26 Supportive Therapies for Stress, Ageing, Cancer and Debility

    27 Topical Phytotherapy: Skin, Hair, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat

    ANNEX

    Naming Herbal Drugs: Pharmaceutical (Latinised), Common English and Accepted Botanical Names (Binomials) and Synonyms

    Index

  • Michael Heinrich, Dr rer nat habil MA(WSU) Dipl. Biol. FLS, Professor and Head of Centre for Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, University of London, UK, Joanne Barnes, BPharm PhD MRPharmS FLS, Associate Professor in Herbal Medicines, School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, New Zealand, José Prieto-Garcia, Lecturer in Pharmacognosy, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK, Simon Gibbons, BSc MRSC CChem PhD FLS, Professor of Natural Product Chemistry at the University of East Anglia School of Pharmacy UK Simon Gibbons, BSc MRSC CChem PhD FLS, Professor of Natural Product Chemistry at the University of East Anglia School of Pharmacy UK and Elizabeth M. Williamson, BSc(Pharm) PhD MRPharmS FLS, Professor of Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, UK; Editor-in-chief of Phytotherapy Research; Member of the Herbal Drugs Committees for The British Pharmacopoeia and The European Pharmacopoeia
    Professor of Pharmacy and Director of Pharmacy Practice
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