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Trease and Evans' Pharmacognosy provides comprehensive insights into pharmacognosy, exploring the study of drugs derived from natural sources.
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Trease and Evans' pharmacognosy by William Charles Evans, 2009, Saunders/Elsevier, Saunders Ltd. edition, in English - 16th ed. / rev. with the assistance of Daphne Evans.
Comprehensive reference on pharmacognosy, exploring natural substances, particularly plants, used in medicine.
This encyclopedic reference work on pharmacognosy covers the study of those natural substances, principally plants, that find a use in medicine. Its p...
Introduction1 1. Plants in medicine: the origins of pharmacognosy 3 2. The scope and practice of pharmacognosy 5 3. Plant nomenclature and taxonomy 8
Pharmacognosy is closely related to botany and plant chemistry and, indeed, both originated from the earlier scientific studies on medicinal plants. As late as the beginning of the 20th century, the subject had developed mainly on the botanical side, being concerned with the description and identification of drugs, both in the whole state and in powder, and with their history, commerce ...
This encyclopedic reference work on pharmacognosy covers the study of those natural substances, principally plants, that find a use in medicine. Its popularity and longevity stem from the book's balance between classical (crude and powdered drugs' characterization and examination) and modern (phytochemistry and pharmacology) aspects of this branch of science, as well as the editor's ...