Therapeutic Use of Medicinal Plants and Their Extracts: Volume 1 - A.N.M. Alamgir

Therapeutic Use of Medicinal Plants and Their Extracts: Volume 1

Pharmacognosy

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
XV, 546 Seiten
2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-63861-4 (ISBN)
235,39 inkl. MwSt

This volume focuses on the importance of therapeutically active compounds of natural origin. Natural materials from plants, microbes, animals, marine organisms and minerals are important sources of modern drugs.

Beginning with two chapters on the development and definition of the interdisciplinary field of pharmacognosy, the volume offers up-to-date information on natural and biosynthetic sources of drugs, classification of crude drugs, pharmacognosical botany, examples of medical application, WHO´s guidelines and intellectual property rights for herbal products.


Prof. Alamgir has been working as professor in the Department of Botany, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, for the last 30 years. He teaches plant physiology, biochemistry and pharmacognosy at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

I. Introduction.- II. Defination, scope, importance and history of development of pharmacognosy.- III. Medicinal, nonmedicinal, biopesticidic, colors and dye yielding plants; secondary metabolites and drug principles; medicinal plants in the systems of traditional medicine.- IV. Drugs, their natural, synthetic and biosynthetic sources.- V. Classification of drugs, nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals; proteins, peptides and enzymes as drugs.- VI. Pharmacognosical botany- taxonomy, morphology and anatomy of drug plants.- VII. Pharmacopoeia, herbal monographs and WHO's guide lines.- VIII. Fibers, surgical dressings and bandages of natural origin.-IX. Production and trade of herbal drugs - cultivation, collection, storage and trade of crude drugs; herbal wealth and national economy.- X. Methods of preparation of crude drugs and their evaluation, quality control and standardization. XI. Microscopy in pharmacognosy. XII. Intellectual property.- Bibliography.- Index


Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Progress in Drug Research
Zusatzinfo XV, 546 p. 101 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 1060 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
Medizin / Pharmazie Pharmazie
Schlagworte biochemistry • Biomedical and Life Sciences • Botany & plant sciences • Botany & plant sciences • Complementary & Alternative Medicine • Complementary & Alternative Medicine • complementary medicine • Herbal pharmacopoeia • Medical Research • Medicinal plants • pharmacognosy • pharmacology • Pharmacology/Toxicology • plant biochemistry • Preparation Methods • Sources of drugs
ISBN-10 3-319-63861-0 / 3319638610
ISBN-13 978-3-319-63861-4 / 9783319638614
Zustand Neuware
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