The Phytotherapy Desk Reference

Author: Michael Thomsen
Publisher: Aeon Books
ISBN: 9781801520010
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
This updated and expanded 6th edition of The Phytotherapy Desk Reference is a reliable and popular desk reference for the busy herbalist. With some fascinating new herb additions, this book contains precise descriptions for a total of 233 of the most used herbs in Western Herbal Medicine. Within its pages, the book allows practitioners quick access to reliable therapeutic actions and indications for each herb, and the information has been organized to be an extremely accessible and valuable clinical tool. Each herb also has a short monograph with the primary active constituents, the qualities of the herbs, known drug interactions and any cautions and contradictions, as well as the recommended dosage for liquid intake. This desk reference is also a valuable tool for students, with its concise information and easy access when studying. Designed for ease of use in a busy practice, this book is wire bound so it stays open on the correct page. Popular with both students and practitioners, users can instantly locate indications, therapeutic actions and herb-drug interactions whilst with a patient.

Phytotherapy Desk Reference

Author: Michael Thomsen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646824437
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
This book has been designed as a reliable desk reference for the busy herbalist/naturopath and other healthcare practitioners. It contains short, precise descriptions of over 236 of most commonly used herbs in Australia and New ZealandThe intention is to provide practitioners with a limited number of reliable therapeutic actions with some reliable indications for each herb and with the information organised in such a way as to be a valuable clinical tool.The short monographs also provide the main active constituents, the qualities of the herbs, known drug interactions and any caution or contraindications as well as the recommended dosage for liquid extracts.As a quick reference index, the herbs have been grouped together under their therapeutic actions and indications. These lists are of course not exhaustive and may be expanded with time. They do, however, include the actions and indications on which most authors seem to agree on. Information about the herbs has come from accepted textbooks and other published material.

Phytotherapy

Author: Michael Thomsen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646413631
Category : Herbs
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description

Phytotherapy

Author: Michael Thomsen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780980729405
Category : Herbs
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Phytotheapy Desk Reference

Author: Michael Thomsen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780645318500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Botanical Medicines

Author: Dennis J Mckenna
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136393633
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 1164

Book Description
Answer patients’questions about botanical supplements quickly and easily!This informative book is a compendium of detailed scientific research on 34 of the most popular dietary supplements used in North America and Europe. Its coverage of pharmacological studies on the main medicinal plants used in clinical practice and sold in pharmacies in the Western world is more extensive than any other publication of monographic reviews available. The way Botanical Medicines: The Desk Reference for Major Herbal Supplements, Second Edition. is organized (standardized topic formats are used in each monograph) makes it easy for you to locate relevant information quickly and to compare corresponding sections between different entries. This book is an invaluable tool for pharmacists, physicians, and other health care professionals who need detailed, scientifically accurate information on appropriate use, safety, dosages, and similar issues related to botanical dietary supplements.Each entry in Botanical Medicines: The Desk Reference for Major Herbal Supplements, Second Edition. covers botanical data (classification and nomenclature, common names, geographic occurrence, and botanical characteristics), plus: history and traditional uses chemistry therapeutic applications pre-clinical studies clinical studies recommended dosages safety profiles (including toxicology) side effects and contraindications drug interactions and special precautions safety recommendations during pregnancy and lactation This extensively referenced volume includes appendixes with information on the major provisions of DSHEA (the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994) and on the criteria and procedures for assessing the quality of botanical products.

The Herbal Desk Reference

Author: F. Joseph Montagna
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780840358134
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1248

Book Description

Botanical Medicines

Author: Dennis J. McKenna
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dietary supplements
Languages : en
Pages : 1138

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Phytotherapy

Author: Francesco Capasso
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642555284
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
This richly illustrated reference guide treats the subject of herbal medicines in an integrated fashion with reference to pharmacognosy, pharmacology and toxicology. It will help to enable internists, phytotherapists, physicians, healthcare practitioners as well as students to understand why, when and how herbal medicines can be used in the treatment of diseases. A great deal of pathology and therapeutic information is also included. Numerous tables as well as figures clarify complex mechanisms and other information. The most important medicinal plants and drugs are illustrated with exceptional color plates.

Medical Herbalism

Author: David Hoffmann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1594778906
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 1833

Book Description
A foundational textbook on the scientific principles of therapeutic herbalism and their application in medicine • A complete handbook for the medical practitioner • Includes the most up-to-date information on preparations, dosage, and contraindications • By the author of The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal Medical Herbalism contains comprehensive information concerning the identification and use of medicinal plants by chemical structure and physiological effect, the art and science of making herbal medicine, the limitations and potential of viewing herbs chemically, and the challenge to current research paradigms posed by complex plant medicines. It also includes information on toxicology and contraindications, the issues involved in determining dosage and formulation types for an individual, guides to the different measurement systems and conversion tables, and the pros and cons of both industrial and traditional techniques. With additional sections devoted to the principles of green medicine, the history of Western Herbalism, the variety of other medical modalities using medicinal plants, an extensive resource directory, and a discussion of treatments organized by body system, Medical Herbalism is the comprehensive textbook all students and practitioners of clinical herbalism need to develop their healing practices.