Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy Book

Pt. A	Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy
Sect. 1	Phytotherapy and pharmacognosy	3
1	Importance of plants in modern pharmacy and medicine	4
2	Pharmacognosy and its history: people, plants and natural products	8
Sect. 2	Basic plant biology	23
3	General principles of botany: morphology and systematics	24
4	Families yielding important phytopharmaceuticals	32
5	Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacy	48
Sect. 3	Natural product chemistry	59
6	Natural product chemistry	60
7	Methods in natural product chemistry	106
8	Anticancer natural products	129
Sect. 4	Plant extract derived pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals	143
9	Production, standardization and quality control	144
10	Characteristics of phytomedicines	160
Sect. 5	Medicinal plants in selected healthcare systems	169
11	Traditional systems of herbal medicine	170
12	Complementary/alternative medicine	184
Pt. B	Important Natural Products and Phytomedicines Used in Pharmacy and Medicine
13	The gastrointestinal and biliary system	199
14	The cardiovascular system	215
15	The respiratory system	222
16	The central nervous system	234
17	Infectious diseases	245
18	The endocrine system	253
19	The reproductive and urinary tracts	260
20	The musculoskeletal system	262
21	The skin	268
22	The eye	272
23	Ear, nose and orthopharynx	274
24	Miscellaneous supportive and protective therapies for stress, ageing, cancer and debility	277
	Epilogue - a personal view	284
	Botanical glossary	290
	Index	294