Herbal Medicines: Development and Validation of Plant-Derived Medicines for Human Health

Researchers from pharmaceutical and other medical sciences explore the medicinal use of plants from such perspectives as ethnopharmacological approaches used to identify medicinal plants, breeding and cultivating medicinal plants, the role of zebrafish in the future of natural product discovery, molecular modes of action of drugs used in phytomedicine, recommendations for reporting randomized controlled trials of herbal medicine interventions, plant and plant-derived products as cancer chemopreventive agents, antiviral effects of essential oils used traditionally, and herbal medicine in South America. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)