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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This new edition may be recommended highly for purchase by undergraduate and professional doctoral students in pharmacy, as well as beginning graduate students in programmes in the pharmaceutical sciences and related areas. It will also be of great interest for use in continuing education courses for pharmacists, dentists, nurses and physicians. In addition, those with a scientific interest in herbalism and traditional medicine and nutrition will find the content of value. Moreover, this book will serve as a reliable source of information on natural product drugs for the interested lay reader. The previous editions of Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy have proven to be very highly regarded by readers. This updated and partially reorganised volume should be welcomed especially by educators of future pharmacists and of other healthcare professionals." -Prof. A. Douglas Kinghorn Columbus, OH, USA "This fourth edition of a work that has gained significant prominence and respect as a leading textbook contains highly valuable and authoritative information for anyone who is a student of pharmacy and/or pharmacognosy. It is also a valuable reference for industry quality-control personnel, herbalists, natural product researchers and others in the health professionals who wish to learn about the growing popularity of MAPs and how natural botanical and fungal preparations can provide a growing range of safe and reliable health benefits for consumers worldwide." -Mark Blumenthal Austin, Texas, USA
Table of ContentsPART 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
