<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">One book that is very good on is Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy by Heinrich Barnes, Gibbons and Williamson. Besides the natural products chemistry and general discussion about healthcare and nuetraceuticals versus pharma, it overs some fundamentals of biology inparticular botany and pharmacology and which families yield phytopharmaceuticals,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Published by Churchill Livingstone (<A href="http://www.elsevierhealth.com">www.elsevierhealth.com</A>) <DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Trish Flaster</DIV><DIV>Executive Director</DIV><DIV>Botanical Liaisons, LLC</DIV><DIV>1180 Crestmoor Drive</DIV><DIV>Boulder, CO 8033</DIV><DIV>303-494-1555 303-494-2555 fax</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Authenticated botanical reference materials</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>