Review
"An excellent quick guide to the scientific literature on the use of botanicals in the treatment of disease." --
Quarterly Review of Natural Medicine"This is a useful volume which should be in any serious herbalists library." --
NNFA Today (National Nutritional Foods Association)"While many books on botanicals give valuable directions, I have seen few which take as comprehensive an approach." --
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients"[One of]the most valuable references for information on herbal products." --
HerbalGram"[This] book should definitely be on the shelf of the physician who is working with herbal remedies. --
Journal of Advancement in Medicine
Product Description
Botanical Influences on Illness is a member of the 'SourceBooks of Clinical Research' series, and is thus a companion book to Nutritional Influences on Illness and Nutritional Influences on Mental Illness. The book abstracts and analyzes thousands of research studies to help the reader evaluate the current state of knowledge about each potential treatment in the field of herbal medicine.
It includes a materia medica on 40 common phytomedicines and an annotated list of resources.
More than twice the size of the first edition, the book reviews botanical treatments for 70 different illnesses.
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