Natural Drugs: Morphologic And Taxonomic Consideration 2nd Edn

Pharmacognosy as a discipline deals with the history, commerce, collection, selection, identification, valuation and preservation of crude drugs of vegetable and animal origin. Focusing on all these aspects, this important work on the subject is of high and lasting reference value for drug analysts, pharmacognosists, pharmacists and crude drug collectors. The systematically arranged and profusely illustrated text of the book has been arranged in two parts. Part I deals with Morphological Classification of crude drugs; and Part II the taxonomic consideration of drugs of vegetable and animal origin. Microanalytical techniques and methods have also been discussed in a separate chapter and there is additional information on the adulterants of drugs, drug production and medicinal plants. References and other source materials are listed, and a comprehensive index makes reference hunting easy. Contents Part I: Morphologic Considerations of Drugs; Chapter 1: Fundamental Considerations, Chapter 2: Morphological Classification of Crude Vegetable Drugs, Roots, Tuberous roots, Tubers, Rhizomes, Rhizome and Roots, Bulbs, Corm, Barks, Woods, Pith, Leaves, leaflets and leaf buds, Stems, Leaves and flowering tops, Entire plant drugs, Overground portions of plants, Flowers and floral parts, Fruits, Seeds, Trichomes, Gums, mucilage, resins, gum resins, oleoresins and balsams, Inspissated juices, latex, tar and extracts, Miscellaneous drugs of vegetable origin; Part II: Taxonomic Consideration of Drugs; Chapter 1: Crude Dugs of Vegetable Origin, Division I: Thyllophyta, Algae, Fungi, Lichens, Lycopodinae, Filicineae, Gymnospermae, Angiospermae; Chapter 2: Crude Drugs of Animal Origin, Class Insects, Class Pisces, Class Aves, Class Mammalia;Chapter 3: Microanalytical Methods, Microanalysis, Quantitative microanalysis, Microchemical tests, Optical-crystallographic methods.