Medicines from Plants

Name: Medicines from Plants
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9781032536170
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Botanical histories of some of modern medicine's most important drugs

Автор: Henry Oakeley

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Автор

Henry Oakeley

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2023

страници

394

EAN

9781032536170

Enbook ID

43244364

Издател

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Теглоt

926

Размери

178 x 254

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The full colour, beautifully illustrated Modern Medicines from Plants: Botanical histories of some of modern medicines most important drugs features information on plants from which we obtain modern prescription medicines. It outlines their historical uses as herbal medicines in the past two millennia, using primary sources, and describes how extracts from them, and their semisynthetic and synthetic derivatives, were developed to be todays therapeutic drugs and diagnostic chemicals. This book describes medicinal plants and their habitats, the diseases that their medicines treat, and the science of how they work.

This amazing and unique book is a wonderful read for those with an interest in both herbal and prescription medicines. Written with authority by physicians and gardeners at the Garden of Medicinal Plants at the Royal College of Physicians, London, chapters detail the history and modern scientific research on plants and their medicines. It is very useful to physicians, pharmacists, herbalists, historians and gardeners, bringing together information from every discipline to make it a work of interest as well as reference.

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Written for people interested in medicinal plants, where medicines come from, and how they treat our diseases
Contains information on 50 plants, mostly growing in the medicinal garden of the Royal College of Physicians in London, describing how they became the source of modern pharmaceutical medicines
Describes medicinal uses of plants in Classical Greece as written by Dioscorides, Pliny and Galen, through the flowering of Arabic medicine by physicians such as Paulus Aegineta, Mesue and Avicenna to the 12^th to 14^th century compilations of Serapion and Sylvaticus and the European Renaissance of Peter Treveris, William Turner, Leonard Fuchs, Pietro Mattioli, John Gerarde, John Parkinson, Nicholas Culpeper, and many others to the pharmacopoeias of the 16^th century to the present day
Fully referenced including a glossary for explanation of technical terms

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Botanical histories of some of modern medicine's most important drugs

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