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Know which botanical medicines are effective—and which to avoid—in an instant Medicinal Herbs: A Compendium contains the profiles of about 200 important and commonly used medicinal herbs. This short, concise resource is translated, complete revised, and updated from the German compendium Arzneidrogenprofile (2000) and was largely edited by the late Varro E. Tyler before his death in 2001. With this guide, pharmacists and health practitioners will be able to quickly find information on medicinal plants and directions for their use. This compendium incorporates important botanicals from both European pharmacognosy and the North American medicinal herb market. Designed originally for pharma...
Learn how medicinal plants work from the chemical level upward Understanding Medicinal Plants: Their Chemistry and Therapeutic Action is designed to teach the chemical concepts necessary to understand the actions of medicinal plants to people who are intimidated by chemistry. This beautifully illustrated, accessibly written guide explores the molecules of medicinal plants and the pharmacology behind their actions on the human body. The book will be valuable to non-science majors, biology majors, interested scientists of different disciplines, and practitioners and students of herbalism and complementary medicine. Understanding Medicinal Plants covers the essentials, including: understanding ...
A single-source reference on the most important and best-investigated Ayurvedic herbs This book examines the clinical information available on more than 60 Ayurvedic herbs to determine how their use in traditional Indian medicine is supported by modern scientific study. Plants are grouped according to body systems and each entry includes a description, information on the source plant, distribution and traditional use, active chemical constituents, relevant pharmacology, and details of clinical studies and safety findings. This unique book also includes a brief history of Ayurveda, examines the history of drug development and evaluation in ancient India, and identifies current trends resultin...
Find out how plant-derived drugs react with your brain to produce either healing or harmful results! The Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs will give you a better understanding of herbal products that have psychological effects. The book explores how they work, how effective they are, and what is known about their safety. Geared towards non-specialist professionals and curious individuals, this guide shows how herbal preparations can affect the brain, mental state, and behavior of a user and includes treatment methods, tables, illustrations, a glossary, and a bibliography. The Concise Handbook of Psychoactive Herbs contains chapters on several types of psychoactive herbs, including: stim...
A multidisciplinary study of pre-Columbian South America—centering on the psychoactive plant genus Anadenanthera As cultures formed and evolved in pre-Columbian South America, Anadenanthera became one of the most widely used shamanic inebriants. Anadenanthera: Visionary Plant of Ancient South America is more than a comprehensive reference on shamanic visionary substances; it is a useful tool for archeologists and pre-Columbian art historians. This thorough book examines the ritual and cultural use of Anadenanthera from prehistory to the present, along with its botany, chemistry, pharmacology, anthropology, and archeology. The earliest evidence for the use of psychoactive plants in South Am...
Ein wesentliches Problem in der Aufarbeitung der sp�tmittelalterlich-fruehneuzeitlichen Traumatologie ist in der Fuelle und Vielfalt des Quellenmaterials zu sehen. In der vorliegenden Monographie wird der Themenkomplex anhand der 1545 erschienenen �Gro�en Chirurgie� des Walther Hermann Ryff exemplarisch dargestellt und gleichzeitig eine neuartige Strukturvorgabe fuer den kritisch-kontrastiven Vergleich chirurgisch-traumatologischen Quellenmaterials vorgestellt. Hierbei werden nicht nur die Therapieans�tze und -verfahren aufgezeigt, sondern auch die Instrumente abgebildet, beschrieben und in ihrer Handhabung erl�utert. Die Arzneimittel werden bestimmt und anhand moderner pharmakologischer Ergebnisse nach Inhaltsstoffen, Wirkung und Anwendung aufgearbeitet sowie lexikalisch dargestellt. Nicht zuletzt gibt die Arbeit eine Einfuehrung zu Leben und Wirken des gleicherma�en umstrittenen wie wirkungsstarken Publizisten Walther Hermann Ryff.
Der dritte Band des Gebietes Drogen der Neuauflage enthält in alphabetischer Reihenfolge von P - Z Monographien über Arzneipflanzengattungen. Jede einzelne Monographie umfaßt die für die pharmazeutische Praxis wichtigen Arzneipflanzen mit den dazugehörigen allopathischen und homöopathischen Zubereitungen. In den Monographien werden Aussagen über die Botanik, Chemotaxonomie, Analytik, Wirkung, medizinische Anwendung und Toxikologie gemacht. Von besonderer Bedeutung sind Drogen des DAB/HAB und von in Europa gültigen Arzneibüchern.
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