CHAPTER 5 Overview of Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Cooking Pot Analogy Steven Paul Marsden In Nei Jing Su Wen, the 2000-year-old seminal classic that gave rise to all of Chinese…
CHAPTER 12 Herbal Medicine: Potential for Intoxication and Interactions With Conventional Drugs Robert H. Poppenga The use of herbal remedies for the prevention and treatment of a variety of illnesses…
CHAPTER 4 The Roots of Veterinary Botanical Medicine Susan G. Wynn, Barbara J. Fougère Today, veterinarians frequently study the names and properties of herbs, yet they may have little or…
CHAPTER 19 Approaches in Veterinary Herbal Medicine Prescribing Barbara J. Fougère There is no one correct system of prescribing. Ten herbalists can prescribe different formulas and still achieve success in…
CHAPTER 21 Herbal Medicine in Equine Practice Joyce C. Harman I have an earache … 2000 bc—Here, eat this root. 1000 ad—That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer. 1850…
CHAPTER 16 Commercial Production of Organic Herbs for Veterinary Medicine Terrence S. Fox The resurgent interest in herbal medicine in the Western world can be characterized as an herbal renaissance….
CHAPTER 17 Conserving Medicinal Plant Biodiversity James Martin Affolter, Andrew Pengelly Current patterns of exploitation threaten the commercial future, as well as the biological survival, of many species of medicinal…
CHAPTER 20 Veterinary Herbal Medicine: A Systems-Based Approach Susan G. Wynn, Barbara J. Fougère This chapter reviews traditional and scientific approaches to the use of herbal medicine in treating an…
CHAPTER 13 Herbal Energetics: A Key to Efficacy in Herbal Medicine Steven Paul Marsden EXPLORING HERBAL MEDICINE Benjamin Franklin defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over and…
CHAPTER 15 Designing the Medicinal Herb Garden Ellen Zimmermann A GARDENER’S PERSONAL ACCOUNT St. Fiacre—patron saint of gardeners—was a 6th century monk whose gardens grew as his herbal/medical practice for…
