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| Introduction | |
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| Plants in medicine: the origins of pharmacognosy | |
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| The scope and practice of pharmacognosy | |
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| Plant nomenclature and taxonomy | |
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| The plant and animal kingdoms as sources of drugs | |
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| Biological and geographical sources of drugs | |
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| A taxonomic approach to the study of medicinal plants and animal-derived drugs | |
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| Pharmacological activities of natural products | |
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| Synergy and other interactions in phytomedicines | |
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| Traditional plant medicines as a source of new drugs | |
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| Discovering new lead compounds in pharmaceutical research and development | |
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| Principles related to the commercial production, quality and standardization of natural products | |
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| Commerce in crude drugs | |
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| Production of crude drugs | |
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| Plant growth regulators | |
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| Plant cell and tissue culture; biological conversions; clonal propagation | |
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| Phytochemical variation within a species | |
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| Deterioration of stored drugs | |
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| Quality control | |
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| Phytochemistry | |
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| General methods associated with the phytochemical investigation of herbal products | |
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| Basic metabolic pathways and the origin of secondary metabolites | |
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| Pharmacopoeial and related drugs of biological origin | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Hydrocarbons and derivatives | |
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| Carbohydrates | |
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| Phenols and phenolic glycosides | |
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| Volatile oils and resins | |
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| Saponins, cardioactive drugs and other steroids | |
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| Miscellaneous isoprenoids | |
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| Cyanogenetic glycosides, glucoinolate compounds and miscellaneous glycosides | |
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| Alkaloids | |
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| The search for naturally-derived anticancer agents | |
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| Antiprotozoal natural products | |
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| An overview of drugs with antihepatotoxic and oral hypoglycaemic activities | |
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| Antibacterial and antiviral drugs | |
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| Vitamins and hormones | |
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| The plant nutraceuticals | |
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| Colouring and flavouring agents | |
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| Miscellaneous products | |
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| Plants in complementary and traditional systems of medicine | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Herbal medicine in Britain and Europe: regulation and practice | |
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| Asian medicine | |
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| Chinese herbs in the West | |
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| Plants in African traditional medicine - some perspectives | |
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| Nonmedicinal toxic plants and pesticides | |
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| Hallucinogenic, allergenic, teratogenic and other toxic plants | |
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| Pesticides of natural origins | |
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| Morphological and microscopical examination of drugs | |
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| Plant description, morphology and anatomy | |
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| Cell differentiation and ergastic cell contents | |
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| Techniques in microscopy | |
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| Index | |