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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139211603321

Autore

Saad Bashar

Titolo

Greco-Arab and Islamic herbal medicine [[electronic resource] ] : traditional system, ethics, safety, efficacy, and regulatory issues

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2011

ISBN

1-118-00226-1

1-283-02574-4

9786613025746

0-470-94436-6

0-470-94435-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (564 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SaidOmar

Disciplina

610

Soggetti

Herbs --Therapeutic use

Medicinal plants

Medicine, Arab

Medicine, Greek and Roman

Medicine, Arab - Therapeutic use

Herbs

Complementary Therapies

Biological Science Disciplines

Pharmacognosy

Evaluation Studies as Topic

Medicine, Traditional

History of Medicine

Humanities

Biological Products

Botany

Complex Mixtures

Therapeutics

Investigative Techniques

Health Occupations

Natural Science Disciplines

Culture

Anthropology, Cultural

Biology

Anthropology

Social Sciences

Herbal Medicine



Medicine, Arabic

Pharmacology

Plant Preparations

Drug Evaluation

History

Phytotherapy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

GRECO-ARAB AND ISLAMIC HERBAL MEDICINE: TRADITIONAL SYSTEM, ETHICS, SAFETY, EFFICACY, AND REGULATORY ISSUES; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 An Overview of Greco-Arab and Islamic Herbal Medicine; 2 History of Greco-Arab and Islamic Medicine; 3 Herbal Medicine; 4 The Arab-Islamic Roots of Western Medicine; 5 Contributions of Arab and Islamic Scholars to Modern Pharmacology; 6 Natural Drugs in Greco-Arabic and Islamic Medicine; 7 Method of Therapy in Greco-Arab and Islamic Medicine; 8 Commonly Used Herbal Medicines in the Mediterranean

9 The Current State of Knowledge of Arab Herbal Medicine10 Greco-Arab and Islamic Medicine Practiced Outside the Middle East; 11 Biosafety of Herbal Medicine; 12 Arab Medicinal Plants: From Traditional Uses to Scientific Knowledge; 13 Modern In Vitro Test Systems; 14 Modern In Vivo Evaluations and Clinical Trials; 15 Medical Ethics in Arab and Islamic Medicine; 16 Medicinal Herbs and Extracting Their Active Ingredients; 17 Food Therapy; 18 Drug Development from Herbal Sources; 19 Herbal Remedies: Use and Demographic and Regulatory Issues; APPENDIX A: Plant Naming; INDEX; Colour Plates

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a systematic review on traditional Arab herbal medicine including historical background, medical innovations introduced by Arab physicians, common roots of Arab medicine and western medicine, methodology of drug discovery and therapy in Arabic and Islamic medicine, a state-of-the-art description of traditional Arab herbal medicine, and evidence-based safety and efficacy of Arab and Islamic medicines. The usage of modern cell biological, biochemical, in vitro and in vivo techniques for the evaluation of medicinal plant safety and efficacy is also discussed. The toxicity of he