By Volker Schulz (Prof. Dr. med.), Rudolf Hänsel, Varro E. Tyler
This booklet is a practice-oriented creation into phytotherapy. Methodically categorized by means of natural structures and fields of program, it deals a short perception into dosage, kind of software and results of crucial natural treatments. simply these natural treatments which are of pharmacological and medical potency were thought of. The authors are hugely skilled within the box of postgraduate scientific schooling and, with this paintings, current an integral reference publication for the scientific practice.All practitioners and pharmacists drawn to the therapy with natural treatments must have this booklet at their disposal.
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John' won Th}m Tormentil rhizome Trilicum rhizome Turmeric Valerian Viole! rhi? me White deadnelll • '\ hi Ie deadn 'tLle flowers Wild m}m' \VLllow hark \XTitch hazel bark ~IICh hazel leaf \' In approximately 50% of the patients who see a general practitioner, a definitive diagnosis cannot be established within the physician's office. The primary goal in these cases after the initial interview is to provide treatment that will alleviate the patient's discomfort, physical complaints, or specific symptoms (Mader and Weissgerber, 1993). To be suc20 Medicinal Plants, Phytomedicines, and Phytotherapy cessful despite diagnostic uncertainties, the treatment must take into account the basic attitudes of the patient, such as an aversion to synthetic drugs (see Sect. 2 illustrates. A distinctive feature of phytomedicines compared with synthetic drugs lies in the priority of clinical testing over pharmacologic research. Almost all synthetic drugs are first tested in laboratory animals before they are tried in subjects and patients. Phases II and III of clinical drug trials are designed to show whether pharmacologically documented effects are obtained in human patients to a significant and acceptable degree. By contrast, the effects of phytomedicines are observed empirically in human patients who have undergone an herbal treatment.
