Therapeutic Use of Medicinal Plants and their Extracts: Volume 2 Phytochemistry and Bioactive Compounds /

• Main Author: Alamgir, A.N.M (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Progress in Drug Research, 74
• Subjects: Pharmacology.; Plant biochemistry.; Complementary medicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Plant Biochemistry.; Complementary & Alternative Medicine.

This book starts with a general introduction to phytochemistry, followed by chapters on plant constituents, their origins and chemistry, but also discussing animal-, microorganism- and mineral-based drugs. Further chapters cover vitamins, food additives and excipients as well as xenobiotics and pois...

Table of Contents:

• I. Introduction
• II. Plant constituents, metabolic pathways, chemistry and their application of plant constituents; bioactive compounds
• III. Chemistry drug principles derived from animal, marine organisms, microorganisms synthesized drugs or laboratory sources and minerals
• IV. Vitamins, food additives, enzymes, anaesthetic aids and cosmetics
• V. Poisons, hallucinogens, teratogens, allergens and pesticides; biogenous and xenobiotic drugs and their metabolism
• VI. Biotechnology and herbal way of disease management
• VII. Molecular pharmacognosy - a new borderline discipline between molecular biology and pharmacognosy
• VIII. Methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis of plant constituents. Bibliography
• Index.