جدول المحتويات:
- Importance of plants in modern pharmacy and medicine
- Pharmacognosy and its history : people, plants, and natural products
- General principles of botany : morphology and systematics
- Families yielding important phytopharmaceuticals
- Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacy
- Natural product chemistry
- Methods in natural product chemistry
- Anticancer natural products
- Production, standardization, and quality control
- Toxicity of herbal constituents
- What makes phytomedicines unique?
- Traditional systems of herbal medicine
- Complementary/alternative medicine
- The gastrointestinal and biliary system
- The cardiovascular system
- The respiratory system
- The central nervous system
- Infectious diseases
- The endocrine system
- The reproductive and urinary tracts
- The musculoskeletal system
- The skin
- The eye
- Ear, nose, and orthopharynx
- Miscellaneous supportive and protective therapies for stress, ageing, cancer, and debility.