Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy

Pharmacognosy, the science of nature-derived drugs, pharmaceuticals, and poisons, played a crucial role in the development of modern medicine, and now has an equally important place in healthcare all over the world. This wide scope ranges from traditional medicine systems and herbal and nutritional therapies, the preparation and use of highly standardised and clinically tested herbal medicines, to the production of potent drugs used only in a purified form. Natural sources mainly focus on plants, fungi and algae, but drug discovery of novel compounds and structures includes bacteria and even marine animals. Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy is a landmark textbook that covers this spectrum of medicinal plant use. Written by leading experts in this field, this book takes the reader through the history, identification, and quality assurance of plant-based medicines to their therapeutic properties, safety, and compatibility and interaction with prescribed drugs. Aimed at students of all healthcare professions, including pharmacy, medicine, nursing and complementary therapies, the comprehensively updated information in this textbook is also relevant to those companies and organisations concerned with the regulation and testing of herbal medicines (phytomedicines), other natural health products, nutraceuticals and dietary supplements. INDICE: Potential new chapter on Antimicrobial Agents to be added PART A FUNDAMENTALS OF PHARMACOGNOSY SECTION 1 Phytotherapy and pharmacognosy 1. Importance of plants in modern pharmacy and medicine 2. Pharmacognosy and its history: people, plants and natural products SECTION 2 Basic plant biology 3. General principles of botany: morphology and systematics 4. Families yielding important phytopharmaceuticals 5. Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacy SECTION 3 Natural product chemistry 6. Natural product chemistry 7. Methods in natural product chemistry 8. Anticancer natural products SECTION 4 Plant extract derived pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals 9. Production, standardization and quality control 10. Toxicity of herbal constituents 11. What makes phytomedicines unique? SECTION 5 Medicinal plants in selected healthcare systems 12. Traditional systems of herbal medicine 13. Complementary/alternative medicine PART B IMPORTANT NATURAL PRODUCTS AND PHYTOMEDICINES USED IN PHARMACY AND MEDICINE 14. The gastrointestinal and biliary system 15. The cardiovascular system 16. The respiratory system 17. The central nervous system 18. Infectious diseases 19. The endocrine system 20. The reproductive and urinary tracts 21. The musculoskeletal system 22. The skin 23. The eye 24. Ear, nose and orthopharynx 25. Miscellaneous supportive and protective therapies for stress, ageing, cancer and debility Epilogue Index

• ISBN: 978-0-323-83434-6
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés