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Veterinary Herbal Medicine

  • 1st Edition - November 29, 2006
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Susan G. Wynn, Barbara Fougere
  • Language: English

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… Read more

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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.

Table of contents

1. Why Use Herbs?

I. Historical Relationship between Plants and Animals


2. Zoopharmacognosy


3. Ethnoveterinary Medicine: Potential Solutions for Large-Scale Problems


4. The Roots of Veterinary Botanical Medicine


5. Overview of Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Cooking Pot Analogy


6. Ayurvedic Veterinary Medicine: Principles and Practices

II. Herbal Medicine Controversies


7. Evaluating, Designing and Accessing Herbal Medicine Research


8. Regulation and Quality Control


9. A Skeptical View of Herbal
Medicine
III. The Plants


10. Medical Botany


11. Plant Chemistry in Veterinary Medicine: Medicinal Constituents and their Mechanisms of Action


12. Herbal Medicine: Potential for Intoxication and Interactions with Conventional Drugs


13. Herbal Energetics: The Key to Efficacy in Herbal Medicine


14. Herb Manufacture, Pharmacy and Dosing


15. Herbal Materia Medica


16. Designing the Medicinal Herb Garden


17. Commercial Organic Herb Production for Veterinary Medicine


18. Conserving Medicinal Plant Biodiversity


19. Safe Substitutes for Endangered Herbs: Plant Conservation and Loss of our Medicines

IV. Veterinary Clinical Uses of Medicinal Plants


20. Approaches in Veterinary Herbal Medicine Prescribing


21. Herbs for Hematologic and Immunologic Disorders


22. Herbal Medicine in Equine Practice


23. Phytotherapy for Dairy Cows


24. Organic Management of Food Producing Livestock


25. Clinical Practice

V. Resources

A. Client Handouts

a. How to Administer Herbs

b. How to Report Adverse Events

B. Training in Herbal Medicine

C. Suppliers

D. Websites and Other Texts

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 29, 2006
  • Language: English

About the authors

SW

Susan G. Wynn

Affiliations and expertise
Wynn Clinic for Therapeutic Alternatives, Marietta, GA

BF

Barbara Fougere

Affiliations and expertise
Acupuncture and Natural Therapies, Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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