CRC Press American Herbal Pharmacopoeia Botanical Atlas

Ensure the quality and authenticity of medicinal plants with the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia: Botanical Pharmacognosy. This authoritative volume, winner of the James A. Duke Award for Excellence in Botanical Literature, provides a solution to the lack of detailed microscopic descriptions for plant species in current trade. This book serves as a comprehensive atlas, offering detailed text and graphic descriptions for more than 140 medicinal plant species and their known adulterants. It is specifically designed to support the needs of the herbal products industry, regulatory agencies, and academic researchers. By providing plant anatomy at a professional pharmacognosy level, this resource helps professionals identify botanical medicines with precision. Whether you are working in quality control, regulation, or advanced botanical research, this text offers the technical data required to maintain high standards in botanical medicine identification.