Botanical Medicine in Clinical Practice

by Ronald R. Watson PhD, Victor R. Preedy

Overview

The potential benefits of plants and plant extracts in the treatment and possible prevention of many leading health concerns are historically well known and are becoming more widely studied and recognized within the medical community. It is these studies that led to the first compilation of new research developments, identifying new extracts and uses for plants in disease prevention and treatment.

This major comprehensive reference work contains contributions from more than 150 clinical and academic experts covering topics such as treatments of cancer and cardiovascular diseases, as well as historical plant use by indigenous people supported by recent scientific studies. Authors review the safety and efficacy of botanical treatments while idenifying the sources, historical supportive data and mechanisms of action for emerging treatments.

Written by researchers currently carrying out identification and biomedical testing, this is the most up to date text on the latest research from all over the world. It is an essential resource for health care practitioners and herbalists, as well as researcher, students and professionals in botany and alternative medicine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845934132
Publisher:	CABI
Publication date:	11/20/2008
Series:	CABI Series
Pages:	944
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Ronald R. Watson, PhD is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona. He has edited 88 biomedical books, particularly in nutrition and food sciences. He published 450 papers, and presently directs several NIH funded biomedical grants relating to bioactive disease particularly immune function and cardiovascular effects including studying complementary and alternative medicines. Professor Watson was Director of a National Institutes of Health funded Alcohol Research Center for 5 years. The main goal of the Center was to understand the role of ethanol-induced immunosuppression on immune function and disease resistance in animals. He is an internationally recognized alcohol-researcher, nutritionist and immunologist. He also initiated and directed other NIH-associated work at The University of Arizona, College of Medicine. Dr. Watson has funding from companies and non-profit foundations to study bioactive foods' components in health promotion. He attended the University of Idaho, but graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, with a degree in Chemistry in 1966. He completed his Ph.D. degree in 1971 in Biochemistry from Michigan State University. His postdoctoral schooling was completed at the Harvard School of Public Health in Nutrition and Microbiology, including a two-year postdoctoral research experience in immunology. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. He has been doing studies of dietary supplements in treatment of diabetes and related cardiovascular disease including heart failure.

Victor R. Preedy is at Kings College London, UK.

Table of Contents

1: Herbal Remedies with Geographical Historical Uses
2: Infectious Diseases Treatment and Immunomodulation
3: Treatment of Disorders
4: Cancer Prevention and Treatment
5: Cardiovascular Therapy
6: Diabetes
7: Therapy of Chronic Diseases
8: Botanicals and their extracts in Health Promotion
9: Interactions with other Medicines