S. Wynn – Veterinary Herbal Medicine

Автор: S. Wynn
Название книги: Veterinary Herbal Medicine
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Медицина
Страницы: 729
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

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.
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.
Consumers of medicine and veterinary medicine
have shown that they desire a variety of
medical approaches. Herbal medicine just can’t
seem to die, and has persisted no thanks to us veterinarians—
our clients and nonveterinary herbalists have kept
it alive. Skeptics have mourned the loss of medical independence,
and have argued that medical research and
practice should not be beholden to public opinion. In
fact, the last hundred years of medical trajectory is the
result of the Flexner report, which aimed to shut down
sectarian medicine. Flexner’s sponsor, the Carnegie Foundation,
believed that medical education should not be
independent and commercialized, but that it in fact
should answer to public and charitable interests (Hiatt,
1999). People want herbal medicine. This is our attempt
to help veterinarians explore and begin to offer it.
We recognize that challenges still exist. It may be some
time until we clearly understand how herbs and drugs
interact. Standardization is a contentious issue, recommended
by researchers and resisted by herbalists. In our
view, herbal medicine is unique among medical specialties
in that we are guided by the past, whereas most of
medicine is inspired by new and untested remedies. Still,
we support research that clarifies these issues, and our
hope is that researchers in this field will recognize the
expertise and experience of herbalists already active in
clinical investigations of their tools.
With this book, we hope that we can contribute to the
re-emergence of the art of veterinary herbal medicine