Molecular Pharmacognosy discusses the application of molecular biology in resource science and
authentication of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This book reviews the latest developments
in pharmacognosy introduces a series of new views and insights presents the hotspots and
focus of the field of study on molecular pharmacognosy and predicts a new direction of study
on the resource science of TCM. Furthermore the book also provides an open communications
platform for the development of molecular pharmacognosy. This book is intended for biomedical
scientists and researchers in the fields of molecular biology traditional medicine and natural
pharmaceutics. Professor Lu-qi Huang is Director of the Collaborating Centre of the World
Health Organization for Traditional Medicine (Chinese Materia Medica) and Vice-Chairman of the
Australia Chinese Association for Biomedical Sciences Inc.
