Comprehensive coverage of the interdisciplinary field of pharmacognosy

Includes chapters on preparation of crude drugs and quality control, herbal patents and Intellectual Property Rights

Supplemented by a second volume on Phytochemistry and bioactive compounds

I. Introduction.- II. Defination, scope, importance and history of development of pharmacognosy.- III. Medicinal, nonmedicinal, biopesticidic, colors and dye yielding plants; secondary metabolites and drug principles; medicinal plants in the systems of traditional medicine.- IV. Drugs, their natural, synthetic and biosynthetic sources.- V. Classification of drugs, nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals; proteins, peptides and enzymes as drugs.- VI. Pharmacognosical botany- taxonomy, morphology and anatomy of drug plants.- VII. Pharmacopoeia, herbal monographs and WHO's guide lines.- VIII. Fibers, surgical dressings and bandages of natural origin.-IX. Production and trade of herbal drugs - cultivation, collection, storage and trade of crude drugs; herbal wealth and national economy.- X. Methods of preparation of crude drugs and their evaluation, quality control and standardization. XI. Microscopy in pharmacognosy. XII. Intellectual property.- Bibliography.- Index