Main description:

Remedy and Contaminant Components in Complementary Medicines provides a broad overview of contaminants in various types of complementary medicines for researchers from chemistry, pharmacology and environmental health backgrounds. By bringing together experts in multiple sub-disciplines, including medicinal chemistry, pharmacology and environmental contamination, the book's editors have amalgamated a single central resource for an introduction to the discipline. Chapters include updates on organic, inorganic and microbial contaminants in herbal, ayurvedic, traditional and other forms of complementary medicines, covering their sources, characterization, toxicity and health risk assessment. The book also includes a chapter on the analytical methods used for the characterization of contaminants.

Every chapter incorporates comprehensive reviews covering the above topics with recent references, to introduce researchers to this field of interest and provide them with information that can easily be built upon.

Contents:

1. Complementary medicines: Definition, value and regulations
2. Sources of Heavy Metal(loid)s in Complementary Medicines
3. Sources of organic contaminants in Complementary medicines
4. Sources of microbial contaminants in complementary medicines
5. Distribution of Heavy Metal(loid)s in Complementary Medicines
6. Distribution of organic contaminants in Complementary Medicines
7. Distribution of microbial contaminants in Complementary Medicines
8. Bioavailability of Heavy Metal(loid)s in Complementary Medicines
9. Bioavailability of organic contaminants in Complementary Medicines
10. Bioavailability of microbial contaminants in Complementary Medicines
11. Toxicity of Heavy Metal(loid) in Complementary Medicines
12. Toxicity of organic contaminants in Complementary Medicines
13. Toxicity of Microbial contaminants in Complementary Medicines
14. Other contaminants in Complementary medicines
15. Cass studies of toxicity of contaminants in Complementary medicines
16. Management guidelines for the safe and beneficial use of Complementary medicines