| Synopsis: |
This volume is designed specifically as an educational textbook for core, courses in botanical medicine at naturopathic medicine colleges and conventional medical or pharmacol-ogy schools that offer complementary and integrative healthcare courses. The information digested in this book combines the best traditional herbal wisdom with the most recent evidence-based research. These tradi-tions include Western herbalism, energetics, homeopathy, and eclecticism, as well as traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic botanical medicine. Beyond these traditions, the emphasis is on contemporary research in phyto-chemistry and pharmacognosy. No other textbook on botanical medicine offers this reach into different but equally successful herbal approaches to healing.Learning Features and Enhancements: Presents 250 monographs classified by body system from cardiovascular to respiratory systems; Focuses on phytochemical constituents, pharmacology, actions, indications, and posology; Emphasises safety, interactions, toxicity, contraindications, side effects, and cautions; Integrates traditional Chinese medicine protocols for the herb, homeopathic symptom pictures, and eclectic specific indications; Provides a quick clinical reference guide condensing key constituents, actions, and indications; Covers most herbs tested on the NPLEX II licensing examination; Offers a flexible turn-key outline for a course in botanical medicine, complete with a curriculum guide, statement of teaching goals and learning outcomes, resources list, and illustrative problem-based case studies. |