Guide to Popular Natural Products

This pocket reference provides instant access to essential facts about 125 of the most popular medicinal herbs and natural products. Abridged from The Review of Natural Products, this guide presents concise, authoritative information based on scientific and clinical research. Herbs and products are listed alphabetically and discussed in an easy-to-follow format--scientific and common names, a patient information box, references, and abridged sections on botany, history, pharmacology, and toxicology. The book also includes drug interaction charts, sources of natural product information, a herbal diuretics chart, poison control center information, a therapeutic index, a comprehensive primary index, and color photographs of botanicals.