Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy

PART A Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy SECTION 1 Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy 1 Importance of Plants in Modern Pharmacy and Medicine 2 Pharmacognosy and Its History: People, Plants and Natural Products SECTION 2 Medicinal Plant Sciences 3 General Principles of Botany: Morphology and Systematics 4 Plant Families Yielding Important Medicines 5 Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology SECTION 3 Natural Products: An Introduction 6 Natural Product Chemistry 7 Analytical Methods for Natural Products 8 Natural Product Isolation and Structure Elucidation 9 Natural Products With Anticancer and Chemopreventive Effects 10 Antimicrobial Natural Products SECTION 4 Herbal Medicinal Products 11 The Complex Pharmacology of Herbal Medicines 12 Production, Quality Control and Standardisation of Herbal Medicines 13 Toxicity of Herbal Constituents 14 Herbal Medicine Interactions 15 Regulation and Pharmacovigilance for Herbal Medicines 16 Plants in Traditional Medicine Systems 17 Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Plant Therapies PART B Important Plant Medicines 18 The Gastrointestinal and Biliary System 19 The Cardiovascular System 20 Weight-Loss Supplements 21 The Respiratory System 22 The Central Nervous System 23 The Musculoskeletal System 24 Female Hormonal and Reproductive Conditions 25 The Male Reproductive System 26 Supportive Therapies for Stress, Ageing, Cancer and Debility 27 Topical Phytotherapy: Skin, Hair, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat ANNEX Naming Herbal Drugs: Pharmaceutical (Latinised), Common English and Accepted Botanical Names (Binomials) and Synonyms Index