Natural Drugs: Morphologic and Taxonomic Consideration

Pharmacognosy as a discipline deals with the history, commerce, collection, selection, identification, voluation 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 and listed, and a comprehensive index makes reference hunting easy.