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Outside back cover : "Healthcare professionals, including doctors, pharmacists and nurses, are often confronted with patients who use over-the-counter (OTC) herbal medicinal products and food supplements. While taking responsibility for one’s own health and treatment options is encouraged, many patients use these products based on limited (and sometimes inaccurate) information from non-scientific sources, such as the popular press and internet. There is a clear need to offer balanced, well-informed advice to patients, yet a number of studies have shown that, generally, conventionally trained health practitioners consider their knowledge about herbal medicinal products and supplements to be weak. Phytopharmacy fills this knowledge gap, and is intended for use by the busy pharmacist, nurse, or doctor, as well as the ‘expert patient’ and students of pharmacy and herbal medicine. It presents clear, practical and concise monographs on over a hundred popular herbal medicines and plant-based food supplements. Information provided in each monograph includes : Indications - Summary and appraisal of clinical and pre-clinical evidence - Potential interactions – Contraindications - Possible adverse effects. An overview of the current regulatory framework is also outlined, notably the EU Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive. This stipulates that only licensed products or registered traditional herbal medicinal products (THRs), which have assured quality and safety, can now legally be sold OTC. Monographs are included of most of the major herbal ingredients found in THRs, and also some plant-based food supplements, which while not strictly medicines, may also have the potential to exert a physiological effect."

Plant Preparations --- Evidence-Based Practice --- Phytotherapy --- pharmacology --- therapeutic use --- Evidence-Based Practice. --- Phytotherapy. --- pharmacology. --- therapeutic use. --- Plant Preparations - pharmacology --- Plant Preparations - therapeutic use

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This manual, to be published in two volumes, provides a condensed overview of the analytical investigation of 80 Chinese Herbal Drugs which are most frequently in use. Thin layer chromatographic-, high pressure liquid chromatographic- and gas chromatographic-fingerprint analytical techniques allow the detection of all main low-molecular constituents of a plant drug and even single constituents can be visualized. Analytical results thereof are shown in numerous color figures. The quality proof of the investigation meets the standard of the European Drug Regulatory Authority. Furthermore, this volume gives a detailed description of the analytical methods used for several drugs. Bioactive constituents, pharmacological and biological activities of several single herbal drugs as well as their therapeutic applications are discussed.

Materia medica, Vegetable. --- Phytotherapy Plant Preparations -- therapeutic use. --- Phytotherapy. --- Materia medica, Vegetable --- Medicinal plants --- Herbs --- Thin layer chromatography --- High performance liquid chromatography --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Pharmacy, Therapeutics, & Pharmacology --- Analysis --- Therapeutic use --- Thin layer chromatography. --- High performance liquid chromatography. --- Analysis. --- Chromatography, Thin layer --- Planar chromatography --- Thin film chromatography --- TLC (Chromatography) --- Drug plants --- Botanical drugs --- Drugs from plants --- Phytotherapy --- Plant drugs --- Vegetable drugs --- High performance chromatography --- High pressure liquid chromatography --- High sensitivity liquid chromatography --- High speed liquid chromatography --- HPLC (Chromatography) --- Medicine. --- Pharmacology. --- Pharmaceutical technology. --- Plant biochemistry. --- Biomedicine. --- Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology. --- Pharmacology/Toxicology. --- Plant Biochemistry. --- High pressure (Science) --- Liquid chromatography --- Chromatographic analysis --- Plants, Useful --- Botanical drug industry --- Botany, Medical --- Psychotropic plants --- Materia medica --- Toxicology. --- Biochemistry. --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Biology --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Chemicals --- Medicine --- Pharmacology --- Poisoning --- Poisons --- Pharmaceutical laboratory techniques --- Pharmaceutical laboratory technology --- Technology, Pharmaceutical --- Technology --- Composition --- Toxicology --- Phytochemistry --- Plant biochemistry --- Plant chemistry --- Biochemistry --- Botany --- Phytochemicals --- Plant biochemical genetics --- Drug effects --- Medical pharmacology --- Chemotherapy --- Drugs --- Pharmacy --- Physiological effect