Botanical Dietary Supplements:

CRC Press

This volume provides comprehensive reviews of quality, safety, and efficacy for top-selling botanicals worldwide including black cohosh, chamomile, echinacea, garlic, ginkgo, ginseng, kava, milk thistle, St John's wort, and valerian, based on a systematic review of scientific literature from 1975-2000. > This volume provides reviews and details of the quality, safety and efficacy for some of the top-selling botanicals worldwide, including black cohosh, chamomile, comfrey, echinacea, garlic, ginkgo, ginseng, kava, milk thistle, St John's wort and valerian. The work was written based on a systematic review of the scientific literature from 1975-2000. Each review includes a brief introduction, a section on quality including a definition of the crude drug, geographical distribution, and a listing of the major chemical constituents. The safety and efficacy sections summarize the medical uses, pharmacology, contraindications, warnings, precautions, adverse reactions, dose and dosage forh