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  • The Handbook of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies 2 Volume set

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    File Format | PDF
    File Size | 12.6 MB
    Pages | 1503
    Language | English
    Category | Herbal Medicine
    Description:  This valuable book also makes purchasing easy with manufacturer contact information. With over 30 individual botanicals and 10 multi-ingredient formulas, 160 products and 360 clinical studies, The Handbook of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies is the book you need to make an informed selection of herbal products. Not only does it list proprietary herbal products that have been tested in controlled clinical studies and provide a rating of the quality of those trials, but, it also describes the fundamentals of herbal medicine, including regulation, characterization, standardization, bioavailability, efficacy, safety, pharmacopoeial monographs as well as incentives, or lack of incentive, for US and European manufacturers to conduct clinical studies.

    Contributors to the chapters describing the fundamentals of herbal medicine include:
    * the late Dr. Varro Tyler, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Purdue University and co-author of Tyler's Honest Herbal, Rational Phytotherapy, and Tyler's Herbs of Choice
    * Loren Israelsen, JD, president of the LDI group
    * Tieraona Low Dog, MD, Chair of the USP Dietary Supplement Information Committee
    * Joerg Grünwald, PhD, co-author of the Physicians Desk Reference (PDR) for Herbal Medicines, and Stefan Spiess, RPh, President of Grünwalder GmbH
    * Anton Biber, PhD, and Friedrich Lang, PhD, experts in the bioavailability of herbal medicine at Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co., Germany
    * Anthony Almada, MSc, founder and Chief Scientific Officer of IMAGINutrition, Inc.
    * Joseph M. Betz, PhD, Director of the Dietary Supplements Methods and Reference Materials Program at the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements
    * Ezra Bejar, PhD, president of Plant Bioassay
    * Uwe Koetter, PhD, Director of New OTC and Dietary Supplement Product Development at GlaxoSmithKline
    * Srini Srinivasan, PhD, Vice President of the Dietary Supplement Verification Program of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP)
    * Roy Upton, Executive Director of the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia.
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