Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy

"This new edition may be recommended highly for purchase by undergraduate and professional doctoral students in pharmacy, as well as beginning graduate students in programmes in the pharmaceutical sciences and related areas. It will also be of great interest for use in continuing education courses for pharmacists, dentists, nurses and physicians. In addition, those with a scientific interest in herbalism and traditional medicine and nutrition will find the content of value. Moreover, this book will serve as a reliable source of information on natural product drugs for the interested lay reader. The previous editions of Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy have proven to be very highly regarded by readers. This updated and partially reorganised volume should be welcomed especially by educators of future pharmacists and of other healthcare professionals." -Prof. A. Douglas Kinghorn Columbus, OH, USA "This fourth edition of a work that has gained significant prominence and respect as a leading textbook contains highly valuable and authoritative information for anyone who is a student of pharmacy and/or pharmacognosy. It is also a valuable reference for industry quality-control personnel, herbalists, natural product researchers and others in the health professionals who wish to learn about the growing popularity of MAPs and how natural botanical and fungal preparations can provide a growing range of safe and reliable health benefits for consumers worldwide." -Mark Blumenthal Austin, Texas, USA

By Michael Heinrich, Dr rer nat habil MA(WSU) Dipl. Biol. FLS, Professor of Ethnopharmacology and Pharmacognosy and Head of Centre for Pharma & Bio Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of London, UK Jos Prieto-Garcia, Associate Professor in Natural Products and Phytochemistry at Liverpool John Moores University, UK Elizabeth M. Williamson, BSc(Pharm) PhD MRPharmS FLS, Emerita Professor of Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, UK; former Editor-in-chief - now a Senior Editor of Phytotherapy Research; Member of the Herbal Drugs Committees for The British Pharmacopoeia

PART A Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy

SECTION 1 Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy

1 Importance of Plants in Modern Pharmacy and Medicine

2 Pharmacognosy and Its History: People, Plants and Natural Products

SECTION 2 Medicinal Plant Sciences

3 General Principles of Botany: Morphology and Systematics

4 Plant Families Yielding Important Medicines

5 Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology

SECTION 3 Natural Products: An Introduction

6 Natural Product Chemistry

7 Analytical Methods for Natural Products

8 Natural Product Isolation and Structure Elucidation

9 Natural Products With Anticancer and Chemopreventive Effects

10 Antimicrobial Natural Products

SECTION 4 Herbal Medicinal Products

11 The Complex Pharmacology of Herbal Medicines

12 Production, Quality Control and Standardisation of Herbal Medicines

13 Toxicity of Herbal Constituents

14 Herbal Medicine Interactions

15 Regulation and Pharmacovigilance for Herbal Medicines

16 Plants in Traditional Medicine Systems

17 Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Plant Therapies

PART B Important Plant Medicines

18 The Gastrointestinal and Biliary System

19 The Cardiovascular System

20 Weight-Loss Supplements

21 The Respiratory System

22 The Central Nervous System

23 The Musculoskeletal System

24 Female Hormonal and Reproductive Conditions

25 The Male Reproductive System

26 Supportive Therapies for Stress, Ageing, Cancer and Debility

27 Topical Phytotherapy: Skin, Hair, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat

ANNEX

Naming Herbal Drugs: Pharmaceutical (Latinised), Common English and Accepted Botanical Names (Binomials) and Synonyms

Index