Pharmacognosy

by George Edward Trease (Author), WilliamCharlesEvans (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.31

  This reference covers the medicinal properties of plant and animal products. It seeks to maintain a balance between topical and classic aspects of the subject, and this edition includes an expanded section on complementary and traditional systems of medicine, taking in aromatherapy and Chinese and African medicine. This edition also covers application of gene transfer techniques to the production of medicinal plants, and there are new chapters on: antiprotozoals, oral hypoglycaemic and anti-mepatotoxic drugs, and on vitamins and hormones.

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $88.77

  Trease and Evans is an encyclopedic reference work on pharmacognosy - 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 recognition in recent years of the growing importance of complementary medicines, including herbal, homeopathic and aromatherapy.