Fundamentas of pharmacognosy and phytherapy/ Michael Heinrich ;Joanne Barnes; Simon Gibbons; Elizabeth M Williamson

Front Cover; Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part A: Fundamentals of pharmacognosy; Section 1: Phytotherapyand pharmacognosy; Chapter 1: Importance of Plants in Modern Pharmacy and Medicine; Aims and Definitions; Types of Drugs Derived From Plants; Herbal Drugs Derived From Specific Parts of a Medicinal Plant; Natural Products Or Compounds Isolated From Nature; Nutraceuticals Or 'functional Foods'; Use of Herbal Medicines; Some Fundamental Aspects of the Regulation of Herbal Medicines; United Kingdom; Licensed Herbal Medicines. Traditional Herbal Medical ProductsUnlicensed Herbal Medicines; Australia; Canada; India; United States of America (Usa); References; Further Reading; Chapter 2: Pharmacognosy and Its History; Sources of Information; Early Arabic and European Records; Classical Arabic, Greek and Roman records; Classical Chinese Records; Other Asian Traditional Medicine; Ayurveda; Jamu; Kampo; The European Middle Ages and Arabia; Printed Reports in the European Tradition (16th Century); Medical Herbalism; European Pharmacognosy and Natural Product Chemistry in the 18th and 19th Centuries; The 20th Century. Chapter 4: Families Yielding Important PhytopharmaceuticalsAngiosperms (magnoliphyta); Alliaceae (M̀onocotyledoneae)́; Important Medicinal Plants From the Family; Morphological Characteristics of the Family; Distribution; Chemical Characteristics of the Family; Apiaceae (also Called Umbelliferae); Important Medicinal Plants in the Family (see p. 215-216, Chapter 14); Morphological Characteristics of the Family; Distribution; Chemical Characteristics of the Family; Araliaceae; Important Medicinal Plants From the Family; Morphological Characteristics of the Family; Distribution. Chemical Characteristics of the FamilyAsphodelaceae ('Monocotyledoneae)́; Important Medicinal Plants From the Family; Morphological Characteristics of the Family; Distribution; Chemical Characteristics of the Family; Asteraceae --
the 'daisy' Family (also Known as Compositae); Important Medicinal Plants From the Family; Morphological Characteristics of the Family (Fig. 4.3); Distribution; Chemical Characteristics of the Family; Caesal piniaceae; Important Medicinal Plants From the Family; Morphological Characteristics Of the family (Fig. 4.5); Distribution; Chemical Characteristics of the Family.