TY - BOOK AU - Heinrich,Michael TI - Fundamentals of pharmacognosy and phytotherapy SN - 9780702033889 AV - QV766 .F86 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Edinburgh, New York PB - Elsevier KW - Pharmacognosy KW - Materia medica, Vegetable KW - Plants, Medicinal KW - methods KW - Phytotherapy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; -- 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 chemistry; -- Anticancer natural products; -- Production, standardization, and quality control; -- Toxicity of herbal constituents; -- What makes phytomedicines unique?; -- Traditional systems of herbal medicine; -- Complementary and alternative 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; -- Ear, nose, and orthopharynx; -- Miscellaneous supportive therapies for stress, ageing, cancer, and debility ER -