Heinrich, Michael 1957 July 4- text bibliography stk Edinburgh Elsevier 2012 2nd ed. monographic eng

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ix, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. 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. specialized Michael Heinrich ... [et al.] ; foreword, A. Douglas Kinghorn ; epilogue, J. David Phillipson ; illustrations by Debbie Maizels and Simon Gibbons. Includes bibliographical references and index. Pharmacognosy Materia medica, Vegetable Plants, Medicinal Pharmacognosy methods Phytotherapy methods RS160 .F86 2012 615.321 QV 766 9780702033889 070203388X 2011021897 DNLM/DLC 110520 20150408114220.0 16793860 eng