Stockley's Herbal Medicines Interactions A Guide to the Interactions of Herbal Medicines, Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals with Conventional Medicines

Provides an invaluable reference text for all healthcare professionals who require evidence-based information on the interactions of conventional medicines with herbal medicines, dietary supplements and nutraceuticals.

Stockley's Herbal Medicines Interactions is a unique collaboration between a team of experts in the fields of drug interaction, clinical herbal medicines, phytopharmacovigilance and regulation of herbal medicinal products.

Herbal medicinal products are being used by an increasing number of people. Often such products are taken concurrently with conventional medicines, frequently without the knowledge of healthcare professionals. As more evidence becomes available, there is an increasing awareness of the potential, and actual, problems of interactions between conventional medicines and herbal medicines.

Stockley's Herbal Medicines Interactions brings together available data on over 150 of the most commonly used herbal medicines dietary supplements and nutraceuticals in highly structured, rigorously researched and fully referenced monographs.

Key features include:

* Ease of use
o Structured format allows user to target key information at-a-glance
* Ratings system
o Simple and intuitively understood, familiar to users of key drug interactions reference works
* Worldwide appeal
o As well as commonly used synonyms, nomenclature includes approved pharmacopoeial names from Europe and the US
* Indexing
o Full, comprehensive interactions indexing, with lead-ins from appropriate synonyms



Contents:
1. Structure of the Publication: 2. Data Selection: 3. Nomenclature: 4. Incidence of Herbal Medicines Interactions: 5. Who Uses Herbal Medicines?: 6. Herbal Medicine Use in Specific Patient Groups: 7. Differences in Herbal Use in Specific Population Groups: 8. Attitudes to the Use of Herbal Medicines: 9. Interactions Between Herbal Medicines and Conventional Drugs: 10. Variability of Herbal Medicines: 11. Mechanisms of Interactions: 12. Pharmacokinetics: 13. Drug Transporter Proteins: 14. Pharmacodynamics: 15. Drawing Your Own Conclusions: 16. Interaction Monographs: