TY - BOOK AU - Heinrich,Michael TI - Fundamentals of pharmacognosy and phytotherapy SN - 9780702033889 AV - RS160 .F86 2012 U1 - 615.321 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Elsevier KW - Pharmacognosy KW - Materia medica, Vegetable 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/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 .protective therapies for stress, ageing, cancer, and debility ER -