Natural Medicines: Clinical Efficacy, Safety and Quality

FEATURES

• Provides information on sustainable use of natural products in the development of new drugs and clinically validated herbal remedies

• Discusses issues on evaluation and clinical aspects of herbal medicine, promotion and development, safety evaluation, metabolite profiling, biomarker analysis, formulation, and stability testing

• Describes traditional uses of natural medicine through identification, isolation and structural characterization of their active components

• Elucidates mechanisms of biological action, adverse effects and identification of their molecular targets of natural medicine

• Multidisciplinary appeal including chemistry, pharmacology, pharmacognosy and cell and molecular biology, as well as integration with clinical medicine

This book serves as an essential guide for individuals researching natural medicines, and industry employees in areas including drug development, pharmacology, natural products chemistry, clinical efficacy, ethnopharmacology, pharmacognosy, phytotherapy, phyto-technology and herbal science.