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Description:

More than 120 herbal monographs provide quick access to information on the herb's historical use in humans and animals, supporting studies, and dosing information.

Includes special dosages, pharmacokinetics, and regulatory considerations when using herbs for horses and farm animals.

Expanded pharmacology and toxicology chapters provide detailed information on the chemical basis of herbal medicine.

Explores the evolutionary relationship between plants and mammals, which is the basis for understanding the unique physiological effects of herbs.

Includes a body systems review of herbal remedies for common diseases in both large and small animals.

Discusses special considerations for scientific herbal research, including complex, individualized interventions that may require special design and nontraditional outcome goals.

Contents:

1. Why use herbs?

I. Historical relationship between plants and animals

2. Zoopharmacognosy

3. Ethnoveterinary medicine: possible solutions to 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. Evaluation, design and access to research in herbal medicine

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 Medications

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

14. Herb Manufacturing, Pharmacy and Dosage

15. Herbal Materia Medica

16. Medicinal Herb Garden Design

17. Commercial Production of Organic Herbs for Veterinary Medicine

18. Conservation of the Biodiversity of Medicinal Plants

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

IV. Veterinary clinical uses of medicinal plants

20. Approaches in Prescribing Veterinary Herbal Medicine

21. Herbs for hematological and immunological 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. Customer Brochures

to. How to administer herbs

b. How to report adverse events

B. Herbal Medicine Training

C. Suppliers

D. Websites and other texts