Overview
- Comprehensive coverage of the interdisciplinary field of pharmacognosy
- Includes chapters on preparation of crude drugs and quality control, herbal patents and Intellectual Property Rights
- Supplemented by a second volume on Phytochemistry and bioactive compounds
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Progress in Drug Research (PDR, volume 73)
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About this book
This volume focuses on the importance of therapeutically active compounds of natural origin. Natural materials from plants, microbes, animals, marine organisms and minerals are important sources of modern drugs.
Beginning with two chapters on the development and definition of the interdisciplinary field of pharmacognosy, the volume offers up-to-date information on natural and biosynthetic sources of drugs, classification of crude drugs, pharmacognosical botany, examples of medical application, WHO´s guidelines and intellectual property rights for herbal products.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Prof. Alamgir has been working as professor in the Department of Botany, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, for the last 30 years. He teaches plant physiology, biochemistry and pharmacognosy at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Therapeutic Use of Medicinal Plants and Their Extracts: Volume 1
Book Subtitle: Pharmacognosy
Authors: A.N.M. Alamgir
Series Title: Progress in Drug Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63862-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63861-4Published: 21 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87657-3Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63862-1Published: 06 September 2017
Series ISSN: 0071-786X
Series E-ISSN: 2297-4555
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 546
Number of Illustrations: 101 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology, Plant Biochemistry, Complementary & Alternative Medicine