Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia

Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia
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Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9988213956
ISBN-13 : 9789988213954
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia by : Kofi Atta Annan

African Herbal Pharmacopoeia

African Herbal Pharmacopoeia
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Publisher : Bernan Press(PA)
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9990389098
ISBN-13 : 9789990389098
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis African Herbal Pharmacopoeia by : Thomas Brendler

The African Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AfrHP) provides comprehensive, up to date botanical, commercial and phytochemical information on over fifty of the most important African medicinal plants. The technical data were made on plant samples sourced from across the continent. These monographs prepared by leading African scientists, have been reviewed by international experts. Additional data includes micro morphology of the plant material, distribution maps and TLC Chromatograms. These data are crucial for producers, collectors and traders in medicinal plants and extracts as well as researchers, manufacturers and practitioners. The scope, quality and standard of these herbal monographs are comparable to those prepared in Europe, North America and Asia. Whilst this is the very first edition, it is being proposed to proceed to a second edition, quickly, as more plant species will be covered.

Nature's Pharmacopeia

Nature's Pharmacopeia
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0231166613
ISBN-13 : 9780231166614
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature's Pharmacopeia by : Dan Choffnes

This beautifully illustrated textbook pairs research on the biochemical properties and physiological effects of medicinal plants with a history of the ways in which humans have cultivated plant species and investigated their effects. Nature's Pharmacopeia fosters an appreciation of the chemistry and cultural resonance of herbal medicine.

Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia

Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia
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Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105124278776
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Ghana Herbal Pharmacopoeia by : Kofi Busia

WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants

WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants
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Publisher : World Health Organization
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9241545372
ISBN-13 : 9789241545372
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants by : World Health Organization

This is the second volume in a series of monographs which are intended to promote information exchange and international harmonised standards for the quality control and use of herbal medicines. It contains scientific information on 30 selected plants, and each entry includes a pharmacopoeial summary for quality assurance purposes, information on its clinical application and sections on contraindications, pharmacology, safety issues, and dosage forms. It provides two cumulative indexes with entries in alphabetical order by plant name and according to the plant material of interest.

Quality Control Methods for Medicinal Plant Materials

Quality Control Methods for Medicinal Plant Materials
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Publisher : World Health Organization
Total Pages : 122
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ISBN-10 : 9789241545105
ISBN-13 : 9241545100
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Quality Control Methods for Medicinal Plant Materials by : World Health Organization

A collection of test procedures for assessing the identity, purity, and content of medicinal plant materials, including determination of pesticide residues, arsenic and heavy metals. Intended to assist national laboratories engaged in drug quality control, the manual responds to the growing use of medicinal plants, the special quality problems they pose, and the corresponding need for international guidance on reliable methods for quality control. Recommended procedures - whether involving visual inspection or the use of thin-layer chromatography for the qualitative determination of impurities - should also prove useful to the pharmaceutical industry and pharmacists working with these materials.

The Informal Economy in Developing Nations

The Informal Economy in Developing Nations
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 443
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ISBN-10 : 9781107157545
ISBN-13 : 1107157544
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The Informal Economy in Developing Nations by : Erika Kraemer-Mbula

This pioneering study offers a conceptual model and rich empirical evidence to help researchers and policy-makers understand informal innovation in developing countries.

WHO Guidelines on Safety Monitoring of Herbal Medicines in Pharmacovigilance Systems

WHO Guidelines on Safety Monitoring of Herbal Medicines in Pharmacovigilance Systems
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Total Pages : 18
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ISBN-10 : 9241592214
ISBN-13 : 9789241592215
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis WHO Guidelines on Safety Monitoring of Herbal Medicines in Pharmacovigilance Systems by : World Health Organization

Safety is a fundamental principle in the privision of herbal medicines and herbal products for health care and a critical component of quality control. These guidelines provide practical technical guidance for monitoring the safety of herbal medicines with pharmacovigilance systems.

Eve’s Herbs

Eve’s Herbs
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 9780674266674
ISBN-13 : 0674266676
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Eve’s Herbs by : John M. Riddle

In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John M. Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility. In Eve’s Herbs, Riddle explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times? Beginning with the testimony of a young woman brought before the Inquisition in France in 1320, Riddle asks what women knew about regulating fertility with herbs and shows how the new intellectual, religious, and legal climate of the early modern period tended to cast suspicion on women who employed “secret knowledge” to terminate or prevent pregnancy. Knowledge of the menstrual-regulating qualities of rue, pennyroyal, and other herbs was widespread through succeeding centuries among herbalists, apothecaries, doctors, and laywomen themselves, even as theologians and legal scholars began advancing the idea that the fetus was fully human from the moment of conception. Drawing on previously unavailable material, Riddle reaches a startling conclusion: while it did not persist in a form that was available to most women, ancient knowledge about herbs was not lost in modern times but survived in coded form. Persecuted as “witchcraft” in centuries past and prosecuted as a crime in our own time, the control of fertility by “Eve’s herbs” has been practiced by Western women since ancient times.

WHO Guidelines on Good Agricultural and Collection Practices [GACP] for Medicinal Plants

WHO Guidelines on Good Agricultural and Collection Practices [GACP] for Medicinal Plants
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Publisher : World Health Organization
Total Pages : 81
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ISBN-10 : 9789241546270
ISBN-13 : 9241546271
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis WHO Guidelines on Good Agricultural and Collection Practices [GACP] for Medicinal Plants by : World Health Organization

Medicinal plant materials are supplied through collection from wild populations and cultivation. Under the overall context of quality assurance and control of herbal medicines WHO developed the Guidelines on good agricultural and collection practices (GACP) for medicinal plants providing general technical guidance on obtaining medicinal plant materials of good quality for the sustainable production of herbal products classified as medicines. These guidelines are also related to WHO's work on the protection of medicinal plants aiming promotion of sustainable use and cultivation of medicinal plants. The main objectives of these guidelines are to: (1) contribute to the quality assurance of medicinal plant materials used as the source for herbal medicines to improve the quality safety and efficacy of finished herbal products; (2) guide the formulation of national and/or regional GACP guidelines and GACP monographs for medicinal plants and related standard operating procedures; and (3) encourage and support the sustainable cultivation and collection of medicinal plants of good quality in ways that respect and support the conservation of medicinal plants and the environment in general. These guidelines concern the cultivation and collection of medicinal plants and include certain post-harvest operations. Good agricultural and collection practices for medicinal plants are the first step in quality assurance on which the safety and efficacy of herbal medicinal products directly depend. These practices also play an important role in protection natural resources of medicinal plants for sustainable use.