Research Catalog

Title

Trease and Evans' pharmacognosy / William Charles Evans.

Author

Evans, William Charles.

Publication

London : WB Saunders, [1996], ©1996.

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Details

Description

vii, 612 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Pharmacognosy
• Materia Medica
• Plants, Medicinal
• Medicinal plants

Note

• Previous ed.: 1989.
• Includes index.

Contents

• Pt. 1. Introduction. 1. Pharmacognosy. 2. Approaches to the Study of Medicinal Plants; Literature. 3. Plant Nomenclature and Taxonomy -- Pt. 2. The Plant and Animal Kingdoms as Sources of Drugs. 4. Biological and Geographical Sources of Drugs. 5. Biologically Active Compounds from Marine Organisms / G. Blunden. 6. Orders and Families of Medicinal Plants; Animal-derived Drugs -- Pt. 3. Principles Related to the Commercial Production, Quality and Standardization of Natural Products. 7. Commerce and Production. 8. Plant Growth Regulators. 9. Plant Cell and Tissue Culture; Biochemical Conversions; Clonal Propagation. 10. Genetic Aspects. 11. Deterioration. 12. Quality Control -- Pt. 4. Phytochemistry. 13. Introduction and General Methods. 14. Methods of Investigation in Biogenetic Studies. 15. The Living Plant Cell. 16. Basic Metabolic Pathways and the Origin of Secondary Metabolites -- Pt. 5. Pharmacopoeial and Related Drugs of Biological Origin.
• 17. Pharmacological Activities. 18. Hydrocarbons and Derivatives. 19. Carbohydrates. 20. Phenols and Phenolic Glycosides. 21. Volatile Oils and Resins. 22. Saponins, Cardioactive Drugs and other Steroids. 23. Miscellaneous Isoprenoids. 24. Cyanogenetic Glycosides, Glucosinolate Compounds and Miscellaneous Glycosides. 25. Alkaloids. 26. Tumour Inhibitors from Plants / P. M. Dewick. 27. Plants with Antiprotozoal Activity / D. J. Phillipson and C. W. Wright. 28. An Overview of Drugs having Antithepatotoxic and Oral Hypogycaemic Activities. 29. Vitamins and Hormones. 30. Antibacterial and Antiviral Drugs. 31. Colouring and Flavouring Agents. 32. Miscellaneous Products -- Pt. 6. Plants in Complementary and Traditional Systems of Medicine. 33. Herbal Medicine. 34. Homoeopathic Medicine / M. A. Healy and M. Aslam. 35. Aromatherapy / M. A. Healy and M. Aslam. 36. Asian Medicine and its Practice in Britain / M. Aslam. 37. Chinese Herbs in the West / S. Y. Mills.
• 38. Plants in African Traditional Medicine - A Review / A. Sofowora -- Pt. 7. Nonmedicinal Toxic Plants and Pesticides. 39. Hallucinogenic, Allergenic, Teratogenic and Other Toxic Plants. 40. Pesticides of Natural Origin -- Pt. 8. Morphological and Microscopical Examination of Drugs. 41. Plant Description, Morphology and Anatomy. 42. Cell Differentiation and Ergastic Cell Contents. 43. Techniques in Microscopy.

ISBN

0702018996

LCCN

gb 96045139

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries