02565nam a22001817a 4500 170824b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781514447376 9781514447369 RS164.B96 (vol.1) Busia, Kofi. Fundamentals of herbal medicine: history, phytopharmacology, phytotherapeutics volume 1. / Kofi Busia London: Xlibris, 2016. xv, 716p.: ill.; 23cm. Herbal Medicine vol.1 Includes index. Contents: Historical use of traditional medicines: Traditional medicine worldwide: Brief history of some indigenous medical systems -- African traditional medicine -- Indian traditional medicine(Ayurvedic medicine) Middle eastern traditional medicine -- Australian and Southeast Asian traditional medicine -- North, Central, and South American traditional medicine -- European medicine -- Modern medicine -- Development of pharmacology -- Herbal medicine today -- The Challenges of standardisation and regulation -- Ethnopharmacology and plant-derived medicines: Ethnobotany -- The Ethnopharmacological approach -- Aspirin: an example of ethnopharmacological discovery -- The Story of hoodia -- Importance of ethnomedically derived natural products in modern medicine -- Phytochemistry and phytopharmacology of archetypal plant metabolites: Types of plant metabolites -- Examples of simple phenols and phenolic glycosides -- Arachidonic acid metabolism -- Coumarins -- Glucosinolates -- Cyanogenic glycosides -- Cardiac glycosides -- Saponins(latin sapo means soap) -- Anthraquinones -- Phytooestrogens -- Flavonoids -- Anthocyanins(Greek: antho-, flower; kyanos, blue) -- Tannins -- Alkanoids -- Gums and mucilage -- Acrid principles -- Bitter principles -- Phytotherapeutics of systems dysfunction: The Herbal therapeutic approach -- The Cardiovascular system -- The Respiratory system -- The Endocrine and metabolic system -- The Immune system -- The Lymphatic system -- The Nervous system -- the Musculoskeletal system -- The Gastrointestinal system -- The Skin -- What is the genitourinary system? -- Male reproductive system -- Urinary system -- Genotourinary and skin cancers -- Herbal treatment for cancer patients -- What are infectious diseases?: African trypanosomiasis( sleeping sickness) -- Cholera -- Dengue fever -- Japanese encephalitis -- Hepatitis -- Human immunodeficiency virus -- Leishmaniasis -- Malaria -- Measles -- Meningitis -- Onchocerciasis -- Schistosomiasis -- Tuberculosis -- Yellow fever. lcc BK 6454 13954 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC WIUC-1 WIUC-1 NURS L. 2017-08-24 0 RS164.B96 (vol.1) NURS/254/17 2017-08-24 00:00:00 1 2017-08-24 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC WIUC-1 WIUC-1 NURS L. 2017-08-24 0 RS164.B961 (vol.1) NURS/255/17 2017-08-24 00:00:00 2 2017-08-24 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-KL WIUC-KL NURS L. 2019-11-25 RS164.B97 (vol.1) KSN/673/673/19 2022-09-08 00:00:00 1 2017-08-24 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-KL WIUC-KL NURS L. 2019-11-25 0 RS164.B971 (vol.1) KSN/674/674/19 2022-09-08 00:00:00 2 2017-08-24 BK