The second edition of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry - Part II is marked with addition of two new chapters, namely, Value of Natural Products and Chemotaxonomy, following the steadfast development in these areas. The food pharmaceuticals and dietary supplement industries have started delivering phytochemicals or extracts in the form of functional foods. A greater coverage has thus been given to this rapidly emerging area of Nutraceuticals. Some of the important ...
The second edition of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry - Part I, is characterised by additions and updating of the earlier material. The book consists of two parts. In the general introduction to pharmacognosy, the book contains independent chapters on Alternative System of Medicines, Introduction to Pharmaceutical Botany, Sources of Crude Drugs, Commerce and Quality Control, Microscopy and Micrometry. The conceptual understanding of natural products as drugs has ...
Since the identification of AIDS in 1980s, the spread of the disease has been so dramatic that the number of HIV infected patients has reached to about 40 million as per WHO estimate 2006. The global HIV - AIDS epidemic has killed more than 2.9 million people in 2006. In Asia 8.6 million HIV infected cases have been reported in the year 2006-2007, where in India emerged as a country having largest HIV infected population surpassing South Africa. Till date there ...