Pharmacognosy

Author: Luo Guohai
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Publish Date: 2004-10-13
Features: The introduction consists of three chapters, primarily discussing the research objects and tasks of natural pharmacology, narrating the origin and development of natural pharmacology, and briefly outlining the learning methods of natural pharmacology. The general part comprises twelve chapters, including three chapters on the fundamentals of medicinal plants, which elaborately discuss the organ morphology and microscopic structure of medicinal plants. The classification of medicinal plants provides a brief overview of mosses and ferns among higher plants, while detailing the floral formula, morphological characteristics, and floral structure of 56 families of gymnosperms and angiosperms, along with introducing the morphology and pharmacological chemical components of representative medicinal plants from each family. The fundamentals of medicinal animal chapters focus on the application overview of animal-derived natural medicines, the classification of medicinal animals, and the basic structure of mammals. The fundamentals of medicinal mineral chapters primarily introduce the application overview of mineral-derived natural medicines, the properties of minerals, and the classification of minerals. The fundamentals of natural medicine identification chapters specifically cover the Latin naming of natural medicines, the harvesting, processing, and storage of natural medicines, as well as the preparation methods of natural medicines. The identification of natural medicines discusses the procedures, criteria, and various methods of natural medicine identification. Many contents in the general part are introduced to pharmaceutical workers for the first time, and it is hoped to gain their recognition. The specific part comprises twelve chapters, including 269 species of natural medicines, with 229 plant medicines, 27 animal medicines, and 13 mineral medicines, classified according to their medicinal parts.