Veterinary Herbal Medicine

Description

This full-color reference offers practical, evidence-based guidance on using more than 120 medicinal plants, including how to formulate herbal remedies to treat common disease conditions. A body-systems based review explores herbal medicine in context, offering information on toxicology, drug interactions, quality control, and other key topics.

Key Features

• More than 120 herbal monographs provide quick access to information on the historical use of the herb in humans and animals, supporting studies, and dosing information.
  
• Includes special dosing, pharmacokinetics, and regulatory considerations when using herbs for horses and farm animals.
  
• Expanded pharmacology and toxicology chapters provide thorough information on the chemical basis of herbal medicine.
  
• Explores the evolutionary relationship between plants and mammals, which is the basis for understanding the unique physiologic effects of herbs.
  
• Includes a body systems review of herbal remedies for common disease conditions in both large and small animals.
  
• Discusses special considerations for the scientific research of herbs, including complex and individualized interventions that may require special design and nontraditional outcome goals.

Related Titles

• Handbook of Veterinary Anesthesia, 4th Edition
• Small Animal Internal Medicine, 4th Edition
• Veterinary Acupuncture, 2nd Edition : Ancient Art to Modern Medicine
• Manual of Natural Veterinary Medicine : Science and Tradition

Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Susan G. Wynn, DVM, Wynn Clinic for Therapeutic Alternatives, Marietta, GA; and Barbara Fougere, BVSc, BVMS(Hons), Acupuncture and Natural Therapies, Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia