Veterinary Herbal Medicine 1st Edition

Your Comprehensive Guide to Veterinary Herbal Medicine

This full-color reference offers practical, evidence-based guidance on using more than 120 medicinal plants and 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.

Key Features

• Extensive Monographs: 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.
• Large and Small Animals: It includes special dosing, pharmacokinetics, and regulatory considerations when using herbs for horses and farm animals, and a body systems review of herbal remedies for common disease conditions in both large and small animals.
• Expanded Chapters: Expanded pharmacology and toxicology chapters provide thorough information on the chemical basis of herbal medicine.
• Scientific Research: It explores the evolutionary relationship between plants and mammals, which is the basis for understanding the unique physiologic effects of herbs. It also discusses special considerations for the scientific research of herbs.