Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, 4th Edition
Paperback
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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
- 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
New to this edition
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- 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
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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