Understanding medicinal plants : their chemistry and therapeutic action /

Offers an illustrated guide exploring the molecules of medicinal plants and the pharmacology behind their actions on the human body. --From publisher description.

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Main Author: Hanson, Bryan Abbott, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2010]
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505 0 |a Interpreting the symbolism of chemical structures, or, finding your way around a molecule -- (The basic rules of bonding -- What do the lines mean? -- Recognizing the functional groups -- Naming molecules -- Sameness: molecular formulas and isomers) -- The origins of bonding and molecular properties -- (Elements, atoms, and the periodic table -- Electron configurations: the real organizing principle -- Bonding to create molecules -- Predicting properties from molecular structure) -- A structural lexicon of medicinally important chemical families found in plants -- (Compounds of primary metabolism -- Secondary metabolics) -- Chemical behavior and its application to medicinal molecules -- (Isolation of medicinally active substances -- Analysis and identification of medicinal molecules -- Antioxidants and reactive oxygen species: chemical reactions affecting health) -- Drug delivery and action -- (Delivering drug molecules -- Where drugs act: targets -- The molecular level of action) -- Case studies of selected plant drugs -- (Ayahuasca and the central nervous system -- Ginkgo and brain health -- Cancer treatments from plants: interrupting the cell cycle). 
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