Description
Book SynopsisA 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.
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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
