Trease & Evans' Pharmacognosy Book

	Preface
	Contributors
Pt. 1	Introduction	1
1	Pharmacognosy	3
2	Approaches to the Study of Medicinal Plants; Literature	5
3	Plant Nomenclature and Taxonomy	8
Pt. 2	The Plant and Animal Kingdoms as Sources of Drugs	13
4	Biological and Geographical Sources of Drugs	15
5	Biologically Active Compounds from Marine Organisms	18
6	Orders and Families of Medicinal Plants; Animal-derived Drugs	28
Pt. 3	Principles Related to the Commercial Production, Quality and Standardization of Natural Products	57
7	Commerce and Production	59
8	Plant Growth Regulators	69
9	Plant Cell and Tissue Culture; Biochemical Conversions; Clonal Propagation	76
10	Genetic Aspects	87
11	Deterioration	100
12	Quality Control	105
Pt. 4	Phytochemistry	117
13	Introduction and General Methods	119
14	Methods of Investigation in Biogenetic Studies	131
15	The Living Plant Cell	135
16	Basic Metabolic Pathways and the Origin of Secondary Metabolites	139
Pt. 5	Pharmacopoeial and Related Drugs of Biological Origin	161
17	Pharmacological Activities	164
18	Hydrocarbons and Derivatives	172
19	Carbohydrates	191
20	Phenols and Phenolic Glycosides	218
21	Volatile Oils and Resins	255
22	Saponins, Cardioactive Drugs and other Steroids	293
23	Miscellaneous Isoprenoids	322
24	Cyanogenetic Glycosides, Glucosinolate Compounds and Miscellaneous Glycosides	334
25	Alkaloids	340
26	Tumour Inhibitors from Plants	409
27	Plants with Antiprotozoal Activity	426
28	An Overview of Drugs having Antithepatotoxic and Oral Hypogycaemic Activities	434
29	Vitamins and Hormones	441
30	Antibacterial and Antiviral Drugs	451
31	Colouring and Flavouring Agents	456
32	Miscellaneous Products	462
Pt. 6	Plants in Complementary and Traditional Systems of Medicine	467
33	Herbal Medicine	471
34	Homoeopathic Medicine	480
35	Aromatherapy	485
36	Asian Medicine and its Practice in Britain	488
37	Chinese Herbs in the West	505
38	Plants in African Traditional Medicine - A Review	511
Pt. 7	Nonmedicinal Toxic Plants and Pesticides	521
39	Hallucinogenic, Allergenic, Teratogenic and Other Toxic Plants	523
40	Pesticides of Natural Origin	534
Pt. 8	Morphological and Microscopical Examination of Drugs	539
41	Plant Description, Morphology and Anatomy	542
42	Cell Differentiation and Ergastic Cell Contents	554
43	Techniques in Microscopy	568
	Index	579