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A Practical, Authoritative Compendium
This handbook catalogs 365 species of herbs having medicinal or folk medicinal uses, presenting whatever useful information has been documented on their toxicity and utility in humans and animals. Plants from all over the world - from common cultivars to rare species - are included in these 700 pages. The toxicity of these species varies, but the safety of each has been formally or informally questioned by the Food and Drug Administration, National Cancer Institute, Department of Agriculture, Drug Enforcement Administra-tion, or Herb Trade Association.
Easy-to-Locate Facts and Figures
Designed to enable fast access to important information, this hand-book presents information in both catalog and tabular forms. In the catalog section, plants are presented alphabetically by scientific name. (The index permits you to locate an herb by its common name.) A detailed sketch of the chief identifying features accompa-nies most catalog entries. For each species the following information, as available, is presented and referenced:
Family and colloquial names
Chemical content
Uses and applications - present and historical
Processing, distribution, and economic potential
Toxicological agents and degree of toxicity
Poison symptoms in humans and animals
Treatment and antidotes
References to original literature
Five Tables of Accessible Data
Given a plant species, you can easily determine its toxins; or, given a toxin, you can discover which plants contain it. These and other data are presented in convenient tabular formats as appendixes to the handbook. Other information contained in these tables include toxicity ranking and other toxicity data (as applicable), such as mode of contact, organs affected, and lethal dose; and proximate analyses of selected foods. These tables are titled:
Medicinal Herbs: Toxicity Ranking and Pricelist
Toxins: Their Toxicity and Distribution in Plant Genera
High Plant Genera and Their Toxins
Pharmacologically Active Phytochemicals
Proximate Analyses of Conventional Plant Foods
This handbook catalogs 365 species of herbs having medicinal or folk medicinal uses, presenting whatever useful information has been documented on their toxicity and utility in humans and animals. Plants from all over the world - from common cultivars to rare species - are included in these 700 pages. The toxicity of these species varies, but the safety of each has been formally or informally questioned by the Food and Drug Administration, National Cancer Institute, Department of Agriculture, Drug Enforcement Administra-tion, or Herb Trade Association.
Easy-to-Locate Facts and Figures
Designed to enable fast access to important information, this hand-book presents information in both catalog and tabular forms. In the catalog section, plants are presented alphabetically by scientific name. (The index permits you to locate an herb by its common name.) A detailed sketch of the chief identifying features accompa-nies most catalog entries. For each species the following information, as available, is presented and referenced:
Five Tables of Accessible Data
Given a plant species, you can easily determine its toxins; or, given a toxin, you can discover which plants contain it. These and other data are presented in convenient tabular formats as appendixes to the handbook. Other information contained in these tables include toxicity ranking and other toxicity data (as applicable), such as mode of contact, organs affected, and lethal dose; and proximate analyses of selected foods. These tables are titled:
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Review:
"Of interest to those who involved in the use of herbs in the medicinal environmentA fine reference work." -J. Elliot, Southeastern Naturalist, 2002 "the perfect herbal reference. This is a tall order but it is one that James A. Duke, Ph.D., et al, filled quite welldescribes most herbs concisely and, in an equally concise manner, evaluates the scientific research on their use. The extensive references and their convenient coding contribute greatly to the overall value of the new editionDr. Duke commented in his introduction that he meant to create a resource to parallel the PDR. for Herbal Medicine. In fact, this updated handbook accomplishes much more. There is no other modern desk reference that combines such a comprehensive materia medica with as much scientific source material. the botanical reference that most practitioners have been looking for and it comes highly recommended by this practitioner." - Kathy Abascal, B.S., J.D., Herbalist, Alternative and Complementary Therapies, October 2002 "879 pages of valuable information about more than 800 useful and rarely used medicinal herbs. the use of shortenings and evaluations and the concise descriptions makes the use of the handbook as a reference book easy." - Journal of Medicinal and Spice Plants
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- PublisherCRC Press Inc
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0849336317
- ISBN 13 9780849336317
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
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