Veterinary Herbal Medicine - Hardcover

Wynn DVM, Susan G.; Fougere BVSc BVMS(Hons), Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0323029981 ISBN 13: 9780323029988

Publisher: Mosby, 2006

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mosby
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323029981
• ISBN 13: 9780323029988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 728