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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.<ul><Li>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.<br></li><li>Includes special dosing, pharmacokinetics, and regulatory considerations when using herbs for horses and farm animals.<br></li><li>Expanded pharmacology and toxicology chapters provide thorough information on the chemical basis of herbal medicine.<br></li><li>Explores the evolutionary relationship between plants and mammals, which is the basis for understanding the unique physiologic effects of herbs.<br></li><li>Includes a body systems review of herbal remedies for common disease conditions in both large and small animals.<br></li><li>Discusses special considerations for the scientific research of herbs, including complex and individualized interventions that may require special design and nontraditional outcome goals.</li></ul> <br>