This comprehensive handbook (comprised of two volumes of 700+ pages each) provides a snapshot of 160 herbal products that have been tested in clinical trials. Details of the products and the clinical trials they underwent are here in an easy-to-read, at-a-glance format. An evaluation of the strength of the evidence from the trials, along with the context for therapeutics is included to give you a complete picture of each remedy and its usefulness or lack thereof. This valuable book also makes purchasing easy with manufacturer contact information. With over 30 individual botanicals and 10 multi-ingredient formulas, 160 products and 360 clinical studies, The Handbook of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies is the book you need to make an informed selection of herbal products. Contributors to the chapters describing the Fundamentals of Herbal Medicine include the late Dr. Varro Tyler, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Perdue University and co-author of Tyler's Honest Herbal, Rational Phytotherapy, and Tyler's Herbs of Choice; Loren Israelsen, Esq, president of the LDI group, Tieraona Low Dog, MD, chair of the USP Dietary Supplement Information Committee, Joerg Grünwald, PhD, co-author of the Physicians Desk Reference (PDR) for Herbal Medicines; Stefan Spiess, RPh, President of Grünwalder GmbH; Anton Biber, PhD, and Friedrich Lang, PhD, experts in the bioavailability of herbal medicine at Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co., Germany; Anthony Almada, MSc, founder and chief scientific officer of IMAGINutrition, Inc.; Joseph M. Betz, PhD, Director of the Dietary Supplements Methods and Reference Materials Program at the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements; Ezra Bejar, PhD, president of Plant Bioassay; Uwe Koetter, PhD, Director of New OTC and Dietary Supplement Product Development at GlaxoSmithKline; Srini Srinivasan, PhD, Vice President of the Dietary Supplement Verification Program of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), and Roy Upton, executive director of the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia.All clinical trials were rated as to their Level of Evidence according to a system designed by Tieraona Low Dog, MD, Chair of the United States Pharmacopoeia Dietary Supplements/Botanicals Expert Panel and member of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

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