Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy / Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, José M. Prieto Garcia, Simon Gibbons, Elizabeth M. Williamson, A. Douglas Kinghorn, Mark Blumenthal
Publication year: 2018
ISBN: 9780702070082
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Pharmacognosy (the science of biogenic or nature-derived pharmaceuticals and poisons) has been an established basic pharmaceutical science taught in institutions of pharmacy education for over two centuries. Over the past 20 years though it has become increasingly important given the explosion of new drugs, phytomedicines (plant medicines), nutraceuticals and dietary supplements – all of which need to be fully understood, tested and regulated.
Subject: Pharmacognosie, Pharmacognosy, Pharmacognosy methods, Phytotherapy, Phytotherapy methods, Phytothérapie, Plantes médicinales, Plants, Medicinal, Plant biology, Botany morphology, Phytopharmaceuticals, Ethnobotany, Ethnopharmacy, Natural product chemistry
