Veterinary Herbal Medicine, 1e

1. Introduction: Why Use Herbs?
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
7. Evaluating, Designing, and Accessing Herbal Medicine Research
8. Regulation and Quality Control
9. A Skeptical View of Herbal Medicine
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: A Key to Efficacy in Herbal Medicine
14. Herb Manufacture, Pharmacy, and Dosing
15. Designing the Medicinal Herb Garden
16. Commercial Production of Organic Herbs for Veterinary Medicine
17. Conserving Medicinal Plant Biodiversity
18. Safe Substitutes for Endangered Herbs: Plant Conservation and Loss of Our Medicines
19. Approaches in Veterinary Herbal Medicine Prescribing
20. Veterinary Herbal Medicine: A Systems-Based Approach
21. Herbal Medicine in Equine Practice
22. Phytotherapy for Dairy Cows
23. Clinical Practice: Getting Started
24. Materia Medica
25. Weights and Measures Conversions*

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.