This book consists of cutting-edge materials drawn from diverse, authoritative sources, which are sequentially arranged into a multipurpose, one-stop shop, user-friendly text. It is divided into four parts as follows:
part 1: historical overview of some indigenous medical systems, an outline of the basic concepts of pharmacognosy, ethnopharmacology, common analytical methods for isolating and characterising phytochemicals, and the different methods for evaluating the quality, purity, and biological and pharmacological activities of plant extracts
part 2: phytochemistry and mode of action of major plant metabolites
part 3: systems-based phytotherapeutics, discussion on how the dysfunction of the main systems of the human body can be treated with herbal remedies
part 4: 153 monographs of some medicinal plants commonly used around the world, including 63 on African medicinal plants.
This book therefore demonstrates the scrupulous intellectual nature of herbalism, depicting it as a scientific discipline in its own right.
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Kofi Busia holds a BSc (Hons.) degree in chemistry and a Ph D in biological organic chemistry from Birkbeck, University of London. He also studied basic medical science at the St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary, University of London. Kofi also holds a BSc (Hons.) degree in herbal medicine and a postgraduate certificate in higher education from Middlesex University, UK, where he served as a much-valued senior lecturer in pharmacognosy, herbal pharmacology, herbal pharmacy, and transferrable skills for nine years. He has rare expertise in natural product research, phytochemistry, and phytopharmacology, which he increasingly combines with herbal practice. Between 2004 to 2006, he was the external examiner on the herbal medicine degree programme of University of Lincoln, UK. From August 2005 to January 2007, he was a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Ghana. Kofi is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, founder of the Ghana Association of Medical Herbalists, and a past member of the accreditation panel of the European Herbal Practitioners’ Association. Kofi is currently the programme officer of traditional medicine at the West African Health Organisation. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Herbal Medicine, Integrative Medical Case Reports, African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines, and the Journal of Zheijiang University Science.
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