Herbal Medicine Molecular Basis In Health And Disease Lester Packer by Lester Packer, Choon Nam Ong, Barry Halliwell 9780824752088, 0824752082 instant download after payment.

Responding to the increased popularity of herbal medicine and other forms of complementary or alternative medicine, this reference reviews and critically evaluates various safety, toxicity and quality-control issues relating to the field.
Content: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Series Introduction; Preface; Contents; Contributors; 1 Integrating Traditional and Complementary Medicine into National Health Care; 2 Can Traditional Medicine Coexist with Modern Medicine in the Same Health Care System?; 3 Clinical Trials for Herbal Extracts; 4 Herbal Medicine; 5 Effects of Phytochemicals in Chinese Functional Ingredients on Gut Health; 6 Tea and Health; 7 Ginkgo biloba; 8 Ginger; 9 Lingzhi Polyphorous Fungus (Ganoderma lucidum); 10 Epimedium Species; 11 Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort; 12 Salvia miltiorrhiza. 13 Schisandrin B and Other Dibenzocyclooctadiene Lignans14 Spirulina; 15 Averrhoa bilimbi; 16 Lentinus edodes; 17 Cruciferous Vegetables and Chemoprevention; 18 Pharmacological and Chemopreventive Studies of Chrysanthemum; 19 Andrographis paniculata and the Cardiovascular System; 20 Rosemary; 21 Crataegus (Hawthorn); 22 Resveratrol; 23 Pharmacological and Physiological Effects of Ginseng; 24 Antioxidant Activities of Prickly Pear (Opuntia.
Abstract: Responding to the increased popularity of herbal medicine and other forms of complementary or alternative medicine, this reference reviews and critically evaluates various safety, toxicity and quality-control issues relating to the field