This full-color reference offers practical, evidence-based guidance on using more than 120 medicinal plants, including how to formulate herbal remedies to treat common disease conditions. A body-systems based review explores herbal medicine in context, offering information on toxicology, drug interactions, quality control, and other key topics.More than 120 herbal monographs provide quick access to information on the historical use of the herb in humans and animals, supporting studies, and dosing information.
- Includes special dosing, pharmacokinetics, and regulatory considerations when using herbs for horses and farm animals.
- Expanded pharmacology and toxicology chapters provide thorough information on the chemical basis of herbal medicine.
- Explores the evolutionary relationship between plants and mammals, which is the basis for understanding the unique physiologic effects of herbs.
- Includes a body systems review of herbal remedies for common disease conditions in both large and small animals.
- Discusses special considerations for the scientific research of herbs, including complex and individualized interventions that may require special design and nontraditional outcome goals.
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Elsevier HealthScience EN
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978-0-323-07037-9 (9780323070379)
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1.Why Use Herbs? I.Historical Relationship between Plants and Animals2.Zoopharmacognosy3.Ethnoveterinary Medicine: Potential Solutions for Large-Scale Problems4.The Roots of Veterinary Botanical Medicine5.Overview of Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Cooking Pot Analogy6.Ayurvedic Veterinary Medicine: Principles and PracticesII.Herbal Medicine Controversies7.Evaluating, Designing and Accessing Herbal Medicine Research8.Regulation and Quality Control9.A Skeptical View of Herbal Medicine III.The Plants10.Medical Botany 11.Plant Chemistry in Veterinary Medicine: Medicinal Constituents and their Mechanisms of Action12.Herbal Medicine: Potential for Intoxication and Interactions with Conventional Drugs13.Herbal Energetics: The Key to Efficacy in Herbal Medicine14.Herb Manufacture, Pharmacy and Dosing15.Herbal Materia Medica 16.Designing the Medicinal Herb Garden17.Commercial Organic Herb Production for Veterinary Medicine 18.Conserving Medicinal Plant Biodiversity 19.Safe Substitutes for Endangered Herbs: Plant Conservation and Loss of our Medicines IV.Veterinary Clinical Uses of Medicinal Plants20.Approaches in Veterinary Herbal Medicine Prescribing21.Herbs for Hematologic and Immunologic Disorders22.Herbal Medicine in Equine Practice23.Phytotherapy for Dairy Cows24.Organic Management of Food Producing Livestock25.Clinical PracticeV.ResourcesA.Client Handoutsa.How to Administer Herbsb.How to Report Adverse EventsB.Training in Herbal MedicineC.SuppliersD.Websites and Other Texts
