Main description:

A perennial favourite with students and practitioners, this is the go-to reference book for 180 medicinal herbs and their actions.

Materia Medica of Western Herbs is designed for worldwide use and contains detailed monographs of 180 of the most commonly used medicinal herbs.

Each herb is presented with:

* Plant name and picture

* Parts used

* Actions

* Pharmacy

* Interaction with drugs

* Botanical description

* Active constituents

* Scientific information

* Precaution and/or Safety

* Historical uses

* Habitat and geographical location

* Nutritional constituents

* Medicinal uses

There are appendices to help students understand pharmacological and medicinal actions, a glossary listing the known actions of common constituents, a table of interactions and a comprehensive therapeutic index. At the start of the book, medicinal herbs are listed by both their medicinal and common names.

Based on the original Materia Medica of Western Herbs by Carole Fisher and Gilian Painter, this new book has been reset and streamlined to include botanical, scientific, pharmacy and safety information.

This textbook is valuable not only for students and practitioners of herbal medicine but is also of use to any health provider who wishes to know more about how and why herbs work and the safety issues related to them.

Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

GENERAL NOTES

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BOTANICAL NAMES

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF COMMON NAMES

APIACEAE [Formerly Known as Umbelliferae]

APOCYNACEAE

ARACEAE

ARALIACEAE

ARECACEAE

ASCLEPIADACEAE

ASTERACEAE [Formerly Known as Compositae]

BERBERIDACEAE

BETULACEAE

BIGNONIACEAE

BORAGINACEAE

BRASSICACEAE [Formerly Known as Cruciferae]

BURSERACEAE

CANNABACEAE

CAPRIFOLIACEAE

CARYOPHYLLACEAE

CLUSIACEAE

CUPRESSACEAE

DIOSCOREACEAE

DROSERACEAE

EPHEDRACEAE

EQUISETACEAE

ERICACEAE

EUPHORBIACEAE

FABACEAE

FAGACEAE

FUMARIACEAE

GENTIANACEAE

GERANIACEAE

GINKGOACEAE

HAMAMELIDACEAE

HIPPOCASTANACEAE

IRIDACEAE

JUGLANDACEAE

LAMIACEAE [Formerly Known as Labiatae]

LAURACEAE

LILIACEAE

LINACEAE

LOBELIACEAE

LOGANIACEAE

LORANTHACEAE

MALVACEAE

MENYANTHACEAE

MONIMIACEAE

MYRICACEAE

NYMPHACEAE

OLEACEAE

PAPAVERACEAE

PASSIFLORACEAE

PEDALIACEAE

PHAEOPHYCEAE

PHYTOLACCACEA

PIPERACEAE

PLANTAGINACEAE

POACEAE [Formerly Known as Graminae]

POLYGONACEAE

RANUNCULACEAE

ROSACEAE

RUBIACEAE

RUTACEAE

SALICACEAE

SCROPHULARIACEAE

SOLANACEAE

TILIACEAE

TURNERACEAE

ULMACEAE

URTICACEAE

VALERIANACEAE

VERBENACEAE

VIOLACEAE

ZINGIBERACEAE

APPENDIX I - DEFINITIONS

APPENDIX II -A BBREVIATIONS USED

APPENDIX III - GLOSSARY OF CONSTITUENTS

APPENDIX IIIA - GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS

APPENDIX IV - CONTRAINDICATIONS TABLE

APPENDIX V - INTERACTIONS

APPENDIX VI - SUBSRATE AND INTERACTION TABLE FOR CYTOCHROME P450

REFERENCES

PRIMARY REFERENCES

THERAPEUTIC INDEX