{"product_id":"9781875093786","title":"Phytomedicines, Herbal Drugs \u0026 Plant Poisons","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book can be viewed as an aide-mémoire to the medicinal plant sciences. Written by experienced scientists and authors in this field, it provides:\u003cbr\u003eA comprehensive but compact, fully illustrated, multilingual scientific guide to medicinal and poisonous plants\u003cbr\u003eVery wide coverage, with 360 well-known herbal medicines and poisonous plants, including those used for their mind-altering effects\u003cbr\u003eIntroductory chapters, briefly explaining all the important concepts and terms related to medicinal and poisonous plants, as well as the most important analytical techniques\u003cbr\u003eA brief review of the different classes of chemical constituents with examples of well-known compounds and highlighting their occurrence in various herbal products and medicinal plants\u003cbr\u003eA compact guide that is also scientifically accurate, with each species treatment supplied with critical data and chemical structures of the main active compound or marker compound\u003cbr\u003eSuperior quality text and photographs and excellent reproduction and printing.\u003cbr\u003eThis handy desk top reference book is likely to become popular amongst healthcare practitioners, pharmacists, doctors and students because it provides quick answers to all the basic questions about medicinal and poisonous plants. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXTENT: 304 pages\u003cbr\u003eFORMAT: 240 x 168 mm - hard cover\u003cbr\u003eFull colour throughout\u003cbr\u003eMore than 750 photographs\u003cbr\u003eChemical structures of active compounds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the author: Ben-Erik van Wyk is a professor of Botany and currently holds a National Research Chair in Indigenous Plant Use at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an authority on plant systematics, ethnobotany and useful plants. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Wink is a professor of Pharmaceutical Biology and director at the Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology at Heidelberg University, Germany. He is an authority on secondary metabolites of plants and their pharmacological effects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Ben-Erik+van+Wyk\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eBen-Erik van Wyk\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ben-Erik van Wyk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47587417850019,"sku":"9781875093786","price":435.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781875093786_32a94ef3-6f0b-4f08-abf6-9d8fdfb679c1.jpg?v=1776608872","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9781875093786","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}