Greco-Arab and Islamic herbal medicine
Subtitle: traditional system, ethics, safety, efficacy, and regulatory issues
By: by Bashar Saad, Omar Said
Contributors: Said, Omar
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470474211
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An overview of Greco-Arab and Islamic herbal medicine; title: History of Greco-Arab and Islamic medicine; title: Herbal medicine; title: The Arab-Islamic roots of Western medicine; title: Contributions of Arab and Islamic scholars to modern pharmacology; title: Natural drugs in Greco-Arabic and Islamic medicine; title: Method of therapy in Greco-Arab and Islamic medicine; title: Commonly used herbal medicines in the Mediterranean; title: The current state of knowledge of Arab herbal medicine; title: Greco-Arab and Islamic medicine practiced outside the Middle East; title: Biosafety of herbal medicine; title: Arab medicinal plants from traditional uses to scientific knowledge; title: Modern in vitro test systems; title: Modern in vivo evaluations and clinical trials; title: Medical ethics in Arab and Islamic medicine; title: Medicinal herbs and extracting their active ingredients; title: Food therapy; title: Drug development from herbal sources; title: Herbal remedies : use, demographic and regulatory issues.