Herbalism

The medicinal plant science or phytopharmacognosy is the study of the plants used or usable for medicinal purposes, the medicinal plants . Medicinal herbalism is a branch of herbal medicine and therefore a branch of pharmaceutical biology .

Her field of work includes the systematisation and analysis of medicinal plants and their ingredients as well as the investigation of previously unexplored plants. Herbalism is a branch of science that combines geobotanical , pharmacological , phytochemical , human biological and biochemical aspects with therapeutics .

literature

• Ursel Bühring: Practical textbook of modern medicinal herbalism: Basics, application, therapy. 3. Edition. Haug, 2011, ISBN 978-3830473688 .
• Jürgen Reichling among others: Medicinal plants for the veterinary practice. Springer, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-48794-5 .