Fundamentals of pharmacognosy and phytotherapy  
Michael Heinrich [and others] ; foreword, A. Douglas Kinghorn ; epilogue, J. David Phillipson ; illustrated by Simon Gibbons. 
 - Edinburgh  New York  Churchill Livingstone  2004 
 - ix, 309p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy --  Phytotherapy and pharmacognosy --  Importance of plants in modern pharmacy and medicine --  Pharmacognosy and its history: people, plants and natural products --  Basic plant biology --  General principles of botany: morphology and systematics --  Families yielding important phytopharmaceuticals --  Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacy --  Natural product chemistry --  Natural product chemistry --  Methods in natural product chemistry --  Anticancer natural products --  Plant extract derived pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals --  Production, standardization and quality control --  Characteristics of phytomedicines --  Medicinal plants in selected healthcare systems --  Traditional systems of herbal medicine --  Complementary/alternative medicine --  Important Natural Products and Phytomedicines Used in Pharmacy and Medicine --  gastrointestinal and biliary system --  cardiovascular system --  respiratory system --  central nervous system --  Infectious diseases --  endocrine system --  reproductive and urinary tracts --  musculoskeletal system --  skin --  eye --  Ear, nose and orthopharynx --  Miscellaneous supportive and protective therapies for stress, ageing, cancer and debility --  Epilogue - a personal view /  J. David Phillipson.  Pt. A.  Sect. 1.  1.  2.  Sect. 2.  3.  4.  5.  Sect. 3.  6.  7.  8.  Sect. 4.  9.  10.  Sect. 5.  11.  12.  Pt. B.  13.  14.  15.  16.  17.  18.  19.  20.  21.  22.  23.  24. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pharmacognosy.<br/>Materia medica, Vegetable.<br/>Plants, Medicinal.<br/>Phytotherapy
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>615.321 HEI