Fundamentals of pharmacognosy and phytotherapy / 
Michael Heinrich ... [et al.]. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - Edinburgh :  Elsevier,  2012. 
 - ix, 326 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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/alternative medicine -- The gastrointestinal and biliary system -- The cardiovascular system -- The respiratory system -- The central nervous system -- Infectious diseases -- The endocrine system -- The reproductive and urinary tracts -- The musculoskeletal system -- The skin -- The eye -- Ear, nose, and orthopharynx -- Miscellaneous supportive and <br/> .protective therapies for stress, ageing, cancer, and debility 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780702033889 070203388X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011021897 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pharmacognosy.<br/>Materia medica, Vegetable.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RS160  / .F86 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>615.321  / FUP