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Medicinal plants of the Asia-Pacific : drugs for the future? / Christophe Wiart.

By: Wiart, Christophe.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, 2006Description: xxxvi, 719 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 9812563415 .Subject(s): Medicinal plants -- Asia | Medicinal plants -- Pacific Area | Ethnopharmacology -- Asia | Ethnopharmacology -- Pacific Area | Traditional medicine -- Asia | Traditional medicine -- Pacific AreaDDC classification: 615.321095
Contents:
Class MAGNOLIOPSDIA Cronquist, Takhtajan and Zimmermann 1966, the Dicotyledons: Subclass MAGNOLIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass HAMAMELIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass CARYOPHYLLIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass DILLENIIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass ROSIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass ASTERIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Class LILIOPSIDA Cronquist, Takhtajan and Zimmermann 1966, the Monocotyledons: Subclass ARECIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass COMMELINIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass ZINGIBERIDAE Cronquist 1978 -- Subclass LILIDAE Takhtajan 1966.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This invaluable book provides a readable, introductory text to the fascinating subject of drug discovery from the medicinal plants of Asia-Pacific. A carefully designed layout presents more than 400 medicinal plants, and includes description of compound structure, molecular properties, pharmacology and clinical uses. With its broad scope and extensive compound listings, this is a premier reference source for natural products research using a pharmacological approach. Starting from a collection of plants in the rainforests of Asia-Pacific, Wiart shows how the present state of knowledge fosters a whole new way of looking at the discovery of drugs from medicinal plants.Wiart uses his approach to deal with a remarkable array of fundamental problems: from the phylogeny of plants, to the molecular basis of activity, limitations of phytochemistry, and the possibility of a truly fundamental theory of ethnopharmacology.Written with exceptional clarity, and illustrated by more than 300 original pictures and 400 chemical structures, this seminal book allows scientists and non-scientists alike to participate in what promises to be a major intellectual revolution.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Class MAGNOLIOPSDIA Cronquist, Takhtajan and Zimmermann 1966, the Dicotyledons: Subclass MAGNOLIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass HAMAMELIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass CARYOPHYLLIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass DILLENIIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass ROSIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass ASTERIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Class LILIOPSIDA Cronquist, Takhtajan and Zimmermann 1966, the Monocotyledons: Subclass ARECIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass COMMELINIDAE Takhtajan 1966 -- Subclass ZINGIBERIDAE Cronquist 1978 -- Subclass LILIDAE Takhtajan 1966.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. vii)
  • Foreword (p. xxxi)
  • Foreword (p. xxxiii)
  • Foreword (p. xxxv)
  • Class MAGNOLIOPSIDA Cronquist, Takhtajan & Zimmermann 1966, the Dicotyledons (p. 1)
  • I Subclass MAGNOLIIDAE Takhtajan 1966 (p. 1)
  • A Order MAGNOLIALES Bromhead 1838 (p. 2)
  • B Order LAURALES Lindley 1833 (p. 31)
  • C Order PIPERALES Lindley 1833 (p. 37)
  • D Order ARISTOLOCHIALES Lindley 1833 (p. 44)
  • E Order RANUNCULALES Lindley 1833 (p. 52)
  • F Order PAPAVERALES Cronquist 1981 (p. 67)
  • II Subclass HAMAMELIDAE Takhtajan 1966 (p. 75)
  • A Order URTICALES Lindley 1833 (p. 75)
  • B Order FAGALES Engler 1892 (p. 86)
  • III Subclass CARYOPHYLLIDAE Takhtajan 1966 (p. 91)
  • A Order CARYOPHYLLALES Bentham & Hooker 1862 (p. 91)
  • B Order POLYGONALES Lindley 1833 (p. 127)
  • IV Subclass DILLENIIDAE Takhtajan 1966 (p. 132)
  • A Order DILLENIALES Hutchinson 1926 (p. 132)
  • B Order THEALES Lindley 1833 (p. 138)
  • C Order MALVALES Lindley 1833 (p. 160)
  • D Order LECYTHIDALES Cronquist 1957 (p. 166)
  • E Order NEPENTHALES Lindley 1833 (p. 168)
  • F Order VIOLALES Lindley 1833 (p. 173)
  • G Order CAPPARALES Hutchinson 1926 (p. 205)
  • H Order ERICALES Lindley 1833 (p. 220)
  • I Order EBENALES Engler 1892 (p. 227)
  • J Order PRIMULALES Lindley 1833 (p. 234)
  • V Subclass ROSIDAE Takhtajan 1966 (p. 240)
  • A Order ROSALES Lindley 1833 (p. 240)
  • B Order FABALES Bromhead 1838 (p. 256)
  • C Order PROTEALES Lindley 1833 (p. 285)
  • D Order MYRTALES Lindley 1833 (p. 287)
  • E Order CORNALES Lindley 1833 (p. 301)
  • F Order SANTALALES Lindley 1833 (p. 305)
  • G Order RAFFLESIALES Kerner 1891 (p. 311)
  • H Order CELASTRALES Wettstein 1907 (p. 312)
  • I Order EUPHORBIALES Lindley 1833 (p. 329)
  • J Order LINALES Cronquist 1957 (p. 372)
  • K Order POLYGALALES Bentham & Hooker 1862 (p. 374)
  • L Order SAPINDALES Bentham & Hooker 1862 (p. 379)
  • M Order GERANIALES Lindley 1833 (p. 418)
  • N Order APIALES Nakai 1930 (p. 424)
  • VI Subclass ASTERIDAE Takhtajan 1966 (p. 434)
  • A Order GENTIANALES Lindley 1833 (p. 434)
  • B Order SOLANALES Lindley 1833 (p. 492)
  • C Order LAMIALES Bromhead 1838 (p. 509)
  • D Order SCROFULARIALES Lindley 1833 (p. 535)
  • E Order CAMPANULALES Lindley 1833 (p. 570)
  • F Order RUBIALES Bentham & Hooker 1873 (p. 580)
  • G Order DIPSACALES Lindley 1833 (p. 602)
  • H Order ASTERALES Lindley 1833 (p. 607)
  • Class LILIOPSIDA Cronquist, Takhtajan & Zimmermann 1966, the Monocotyledons (p. 641)
  • I Subclass ARECIDAE Takhtajan 1966 (p. 641)
  • A Order ARALES Lindley 1833 (p. 641)
  • II Subclass COMMELINIDAE Takhtajan 1966 (p. 650)
  • A Order COMMELINALES Lindley 1833 (p. 651)
  • B Order ERIOCAULALES Nakai 1930 (p. 655)
  • C Order RESTIONALES J. H. Schaffner 1929 (p. 657)
  • D Order CYPERALES G. T. Burnet 1835 (p. 658)
  • III Subclass ZINGIBERIDAE Cronquist 1978 (p. 676)
  • A Order BROMELIALES Lindley 1833 (p. 676)
  • IV Subclass LILIIDAE Takhtajan 1966 (p. 678)
  • A Order LILIALES Lindley 1833 (p. 678)
  • B Order ORCHIDALES Bromhead 1838 (p. 692)
  • Index (p. 695)
  • List of Native Names (p. 705)
  • Appendix (p. 719)