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American Herbal Pharmacopoeia
This book includes detailed images, drawings, and photomicrographs of sectioned, whole, and powdered material of many important species currently lacking quality descriptions. The book supplies full instructions for setting up a microscopy laboratory and performing botanical microscopy for the identification of plant material. The botanical covered in the book represent 90 percent of the dollar value of botanical sales in the United States. It also covers a number of popular Asian botanicals, providing the first English language description for many of these. Focusing on those species in high use and commonly adulterated, this book: provides microscopic descriptions of the major notanicals used in herbal products, includes descriptions based on authenticated materials and multiple samples of each species, discusses the microscopic anatomy of plant parts used, whole and powdered, for each species, contains line drawings, microphoto images, and more than 1000 color illustrations, supplies a guide to microscopy resources. With descriptions of more than 140 medicinal plant species, the book covers plant anatomy at a level appropriate for the pharmacognostic analysisi of plant tissues, offering extensive coverage of the history and importance of botanical microscopy. It provides the basic for reestablishing botanical microscopy as accost-effective tool to use in assessing botanical identity, purity, and quality.
CONTENTS
SECTION 1 Introduction to botanical microscopy 3-179
SECTION 2 Botanical microscopy atlas 209-735
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