Herbs and Natural Supplements, Volume 2: An Evidence-Based Guide, Volume 2, Edition 4

Lesley Braun · Marc Cohen

Mar 2015 · Elsevier Health Sciences

About this ebook

Herbs and Natural Supplements, 4th Edition: An evidence-based guide

is an authoritative, evidence-based reference. This two-volume resource is essential to the safe and effective use of herbal, nutritional and food supplements.

The second volume provides current, evidence-based monographs on the 132 most popular herbs, nutrients and food supplements. Organised alphabetically, each monograph includes daily intake, main actions and indications, adverse reactions, contraindications and precautions, safety in pregnancy and more.

• Recommended by the Pharmacy Board of Australia as an evidence-based reference works (print) that pharmacists are meant to have access to when dispensing
• Contributed content from naturopaths, GPs, pharmacists, and herbalists
• Useful in a clinical setting as well as a reference book.
• It provides up-to-date evidence on the latest research impacting on herbal and natural medicine by top leaders in Australia within the fields of Pharmacy, Herbal Medicine and Natural Medicine

Ratings and reviews

The book itself is a fantastic clinical resource; however, as a Play Book, the search function is not functional (or at least no longer functional). It's agonizing scrolling through almost 1300 pages of actual content to find a certain monograph, especially when the Play Book table of contents is essentially only organized by Title Page, Copyright Page, Acknowledgements, the Monographs (page 1), and then the Appendices (page 1224). There is no accessible jumping between, say, herbs that start with an A and herbs that start with an M. You just have to scroll. Better yet, even if you check the book's table of contents and see that cinnamon is covered on page 190, the Play Book won't let you easily alter your place in the book, so you still. Just. Have. To scroll. There have been times I've had to scroll, wait for a page to load to see if I'm in the right alphabetical zipcode, scroll a little up, scroll back down-- just to find out that the herb or supplement I'm looking for isn't covered in the book at all. It would be a great physical book, but as it sits in my Play Book library, I feel like I wasted my money. And I'm definitely wasting my time every time I open it. Buy it, but buy the physical book. This is basically one long newspaper you can find in those bulbous, dimly-lit library computers.

About the author

Dr Lesley Braun is a registered pharmacist and naturopath. She holds a PhD from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, in which she investigated the integration of complementary medicine into hospitals in Victoria. Dr Braun is an Adjunct associate Professor of Integrative Medicine at the National Institute of Complementary Medicine at the University of Western Sydney in Australia. NICM provides leadership and support for strategically directed research into complementary medicine and translation of evidence into clinical practice and relevant policy to benefit the health of all Australians. Dr Braun serves on the Australian Therapeutic Goods Advisory Council which oversees the implementation of TGA reforms and provides general strategic guidance to the TGA, advice on relationships and communication with stakeholders. She is also on the executive for the Complementary and Integrative Therapies interest group of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia and an advisory board member to the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association. As of 2014, she is also the Director of Blackmore’s Institute, the academic and professional arm of Blackmores, which entails engaging with a broad range of academics, government and industry bodies and overseeing a comprehensive academic and research program. Since 1996 she has authored numerous chapters for books and more than 100 articles, and since 2000 has written regular columns for the Australian Journal of Pharmacy and the Journal of Complementary Medicine. She lectures to medical students at Monash University and to chiropractic students at RMIT University, and is regularly invited to present at national and international conferences about evidence-based complementary medicine, drug interactions, complementary medicine safety and her own clinical research. Her role as the main author of Herbs and Natural Supplements - An Evidence-based Guide represents a continuation of a life-long goal to integrate evidence-based complementary medicine into standard practice and improve patient outcomes safely and effectively.

Professor Marc Cohen is one of Australia’s pioneers of integrative and holistic medicine who has made significant impacts on education, research, clinical practice and policy. He is a medical doctor and Professor of Health Sciences at RMIT University where he leads postgraduate Wellness Programs and supervises research into wellness and holistic health including research on yoga, meditation, nutrition, herbal medicine, acupuncture, lifestyle and the health impact of pesticides, organic food and detoxification. Prof Cohen sits on the Board of a number of national and international associations including the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association, the Global Spa and Wellness Summit and the Australasian Spa and Wellness Association, as well as serving on the Editorial Board of several international peer-reviewed journals. Prof Cohen has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and co-edited the text ‘Understanding the Global Spa Industry’, along with more than 10 other books on holistic approaches to health. He is a frequent speaker at many national and international conferences where he delivers inspiring, informative and uplifting presentations. His impact on the field has been recognised by four consecutive RMIT Media Star Awards as well as the inaugural Award for Leadership and Collaboration from the National Institute of Complementary Medicine.