BASICS OF PHYTOTHERAPY

V.А. Kurkin BASICS OF PHYTOTHERAPY: the tutorial. - Samara: the Limited Company "Ofort", State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Samara State Medical University of the Public Health of the Russian Federation", 2009. - 963 p.

In the tutorial there are discussed the place and role of pharmacognosy in modern medicine, its methodological significance for phytotherapy. Also the tutorial includes the guidance for the use of medicinal and food medicinal plants for preventive measures and treatment of diseases of: cardiovascular, nervous, respiratory, digestive, urogenital, immune, endocrine systems, and other nosological forms. Moreover, in the tutorial there are characteristics of the most perspective herbs used in folk medicine and also for manufacturing foreign medical agents. The material in the tutorial is given systematically: information on bioactive compounds (BAC) and associated substances of medicinal herbs; also, there is shown their significance not only in the identification but also in the prognosis for pharmacotherapeutic effect. The author represents his own classification of the raw herbal products. The edition includes BAC's characteristic from the point of view of chemical structure, physical-chemical and pharmacological properties. The tutorial includes the test task block. The sections "Pharmacological effect" and "Use" are discussed from the point of view of demonstrative medicine. In the tutorial one can find the author's prescription of medicinal preparations (mixtures) and phytopreparations.
The edition "Basics of Phytotherapy" is recommended by the study-methodological association of the medical and pharmaceutical education of the Higher Schools of Russia as a teaching aid for students of the speciality 060108 (040500) - "Pharmacy". The tutorial is intended for students of the medical and pharmaceutical Schools of Higher Education (faculties), and also for doctors and pharmaceutical workers as a study material for professional development in the framework of the postgraduate education.

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The publishing house - the Limited Company "OFORT" (published also the tutorial "Pharmacognosy").
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Price (1 tutorial issue) - 2000 rub.
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