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HerbalEGram: Volume 8, Number 5, May 2011
May Featured Book Excerpt
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BOTANICAL PHARMACOGNOSY Microscopic Characterization of Botanical Medicines was edited by Roy Upton, Alison Graff, Georgina Joliffe, Reinhard Langer, and Elizabeth Williamson, and published in 2011 by CRC Press. 800 pages. $169.95
This highly anticipated textbook from the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP) aims to assist professionals in the identification, authentication, and purity assessment of raw plant material. It begins by providing readers with a thorough background on botanical pharmacognosy, nomenclature, and adulteration. It then features valuable chapters on the uses and limitations of botanical microscopy, full instructions on how to set up a microscopy lab and perform botanical microscopy, major plant groups and plant anatomy, medicinal plant tissue organization, and preparing samples for analysis. To aide these detailed descriptions, Microscopic Characterization includes more than 2,000 color illustrations, as well as line drawings and microphoto images.
HerbalEGram readers can read an excerpt of Microscopic Characterization, which includes the table of contents, foreword, preface, introduction, and Chapter 1 "Classical Botanical Pharmacognosy: From Dioscorides to Modern Herbal Medicines."
The book can be purchased at AHP's website. By entering promotional code ABC1 during checkout, ABC members will receive a 10% discount, and their copy will be autographed by the book's editors.
©2011 CRC Press
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