Botanical Medicine in Clinical Practice [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Watson R.R
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| Titolo: |
Botanical Medicine in Clinical Practice [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | CABI, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (937 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 615.321 |
| Soggetto topico: | Botany, Medical |
| Herbs -- Therapeutic use | |
| Phytotherapy | |
| Plant preparations | |
| Plants, Medicinal | |
| Herbs - Therapeutic use | |
| Materia medica, Vegetable | |
| Biological Products | |
| Plants | |
| Complementary Therapies | |
| Therapeutics | |
| Eukaryota | |
| Complex Mixtures | |
| Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment | |
| Organisms | |
| Chemicals and Drugs | |
| Plant Preparations | |
| Health & Biological Sciences | |
| Pharmacy, Therapeutics, & Pharmacology | |
| Altri autori: |
PreedyV.R
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Herbal Remedies with Geographic Historic Uses; 1. African Plants as Antipathogen Agents: Efficacy and Clinical Evidence; 2. African Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of HIV/AIDS; 3. African Plants and Herbs in Asthma Therapy; 4. Arab Herbal Medicine; 5. Bolivian Plant Extracts: Traditional Medicine; 6. Brazilian Medicinal Plants in Gastrointestinal Therapy; 7. Chinese Herbal Medicine in Asthma and Allergy Treatment; 8. Plant Drugs and Extracts in Human and Veterinary Health Promotion within Europe: Benefits and Risks |
| 9. Himalayan Mayapple: Traditional Uses, Clinical Indications and Future Prospects10. Neem Leaves: Indian Herbal Medicine; 11. Japanese Botanical Medicines in Liver and Gastrointestinal Health: Risk and Benefits; 12. Japanese Herbal Medicine in Western-style Modern Medical System; 13. Korean Traditional Herbal Materials and Herbal Formulas in Health Promotion: Benefits and Safety; 14. South American Plants in Folk Medicine: Chilean and Patagonian Cases; 15. The Use of Herbal Medicines by Mexican Americans in the USA: Risk/Benefits?; II. Infectious Disease Treatment and Immunomodulation | |
| 16. Antibacterial Effects of Tannins in Children and Adults17. Antimicrobial Activity of Medicinal Plants from South America; 18. Plant Oils and Anti-pathogen Immune Stimulation; 19. Novel Anti-schistosomal Drugs from Medical Plants; 20. Caribbean Plant Therapies to Treat Diseases; 21. Essential Oils Inhibit Replication of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 and Type 2; 22. Japanese Vegetable Juice, Aojiru as Immunomodulators; 23. Micronutrients and Nutrient Synergy in Immunodeficiency and Infectious Disease; 24. Botanicals in Infectious Disease Treatment; 25. Herbs and Infectious Disease | |
| 26. Health Promotion in Relation to Respiratory Viral InfectionsIII. Treatment of Disorders; i. Cancer Prevention and Treatment; 27. Black Cohosh Extracts and Cancer; 28. Botanicals for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia; 29. Brazilian Anticancer Botanical Agents; 30. Cruciferous Vegetables and Bladder Cancer; 31. Mushrooms and the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer; 32. Mushroom Secondary Metabolites and Cancer; 33. Ginger and Curcumin in Cancer Prevention and Health Promotion; 34. Bioavailability and Cancer Preventive Activity of Green Tea Polyphenols | |
| 35. Herbal Ingredients for the Inhibition of Tumour-induced Angiogenesis36. Herbal Products in Dermatology: Implications for Photoaging, Skin Cancer Prevention and the Treatment of Cutaneous Disease; 37. Lichen Extracts and Cancer; 38. Magic Fusion: the Meaning of Integration in Medicine; 39. Dietary Phytochemicals in Prevention and Therapy of Cancer; 40. Phytochemicals and Anticancer Mechanisms; 41. Plant Extracts and Breast Cancer; 42. Plant Polyphenols and Phyto-oestrogens in Cancer Prevention; 43. Russian Medicinal Plants in Treatment of Cancer | |
| 44. Scutellaria: Potential Use in Cancer Prevention and Treatment | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The potential benefits of plants and plant extracts in the treatment and possible prevention of many leading health concerns are becoming more widely recognised within the medicinal community. This major comprehensive reference work contains contributions from more than 80 clinical and academic experts in the field, covering a range of plant products and their uses, divided into sections on topics such as treatments of cardiovascular diseases and cancer. The book covers the safety and efficacy of botanical treatments and there is also a chapter analysing the possible interactions of herbal rem |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Botanical Medicine in Clinical Practice |
| ISBN: | 1-84593-730-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910446322703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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