Herbal medicine: biomolecular and clinical aspects

 Content: Herbal Medicine: An Introduction to its History, Usage, Regulation, Current Trends, and Research Needs, Sissi Wachtel-Galor and Iris F. F. Benzie  Antioxidants in Herbs and Spices: Roles in Oxidative Stress and Redox Signaling, Ingvild Paur, Monica H. Carlsen, Bente Lise Halvorsen, and Rune Blomhoff  Evaluation of Nutritional and Metabolic Effects of Aloe vera, Meika Foster, Duncan Hunter, and Samir Samman  Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.),Wing-kwan Chu, Sabrina C. M. Cheung, Roxanna A. W. Lau, and Iris F. F. Benzie  Cordyceps as an Herbal Drug, Bao-qin Lin and Shao-ping Li  Cranberry, Catherine C. Neto and Joe A. Vinson  The Amazing and Mighty Ginger, Ann M. Bode and Zigang Dong  Biological Activities of Ginseng and Its Application to Human Health, J. J. Wee, K. Park, and A. S. Chung  Ganoderma lucidum (Lingzhi or Reishi): A Medicinal Mushroom, Sissi Wachtel-Galor, John Yuen, John A. Buswell, and Iris F. F. Benzie  Pomegranate Ellagitannins, David Heber  Medical Attributes of St. John\'s Wort-Hypericum perforatum, Kenneth M. Klemow, Andrew Bartlow, Justin Crawford, Neil Kocher, Jay Shah, and Michael Ritsick  Tea, Mauro Serafini, Daniele Del Rio, Yao Denis N\'Dri, Saverio Bettuzzi, and Ilaria Peluso  Turmeric, the Golden Spice: From Traditional Medicine to Modern Medicine, Sahdeo Prasad and Bharat B. Aggarwal  Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects of Chinese Wolfberry, Peter Bucheli, Qiutao Gao, Robert Redgwell, Karine Vidal, Junkuan Wang, and Weiguo Zhang  Botanical Phenolics and Neurodegeneration, Albert Y. Sun, Qun Wang, Agnes Simonyi, and Grace Y. Sun  Cardiovascular Disease, Richard Walden and Brian Tomlinson  Herbs and Spices in Cancer Prevention and Treatment, C. M. Kaefer and J. A. Milner  Herbal Treatment for Dermatologic Disorders, Philip D. Shenefelt  Diabetes and Herbal (Botanical) Medicine, William T. Cefalu, Jaqueline M. Stephens, and David M. Ribnicky  Bioactive Components in Herbal Medicine: Experimental Approaches, Foo-tim Chau, Kwok-pui Fung, Chi-man Koon, Kit-man Lau, Shun-yin Wei, and Ping-chung Leung  Ethics of Using Herbal Medicine as Primary or Adjunct Treatment and Issues of Drug-Herb Interactionl, Lauren Girard and Sunita Vohra  Integration of Herbal Medicine into Evidence-Based Clinical Practice: Current Status and Issues, Anthony Lin Zhang, Charlie Changli Xue, and Harry H. S. Fong  Index
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              Rev. ed. of: Herbal and traditional medicine / edited by Lester Packer, Choon Nam Ong, Barry Halliwell. c2004.                 Read more...