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Today's health care professionals are increasingly confronted with patients who are using herbal supplements to treat various conditions. Providing an authoritative introduction to botanical medicine for these professionals, this book combines the various scientific fields of herbal medicine, phytomedicine, and pharmacognosy with the modern clinical trials that support the rationale for using plant products in health care. This third edition features new information on herb-drug interactions as well as on diabetes, migraine headaches and the common cold, and flu. With updated references, the text presents the latest organic chemical reporting, including nomenclature, and plant taxonomy.

ISBN 9780789028099Edition 03Binding Cloth