Botanical Medicine: Efficacy, Quality Assurance, and Regulation

Abstract

Opening comments from the Department of Health and Human Services / Devra Lee Davis -- An introduction to the medicinal use of botanicals / Varro E. Tyler -- Twenty-seven major botanicals and their uses in the United States / Mark Blumenthal -- Types of botanical products used in the United States / Robert S. McCaleb -- Herbal use by health care providers / J. Jamison Starbuck -- Botanical efficacy in the clinical setting / Andrew T. Weil -- Evaluating an ancient Kampo prescription by modern methods / Peter Goldman -- A methodologic case study : effect of a proprietary herbal medicine on the relief of joint pain in arthritis / Simon Y. Mills -- Databases containing information pertaining to botanical medicine / Norman R. Farnsworth -- Evaluation of herbal efficacy : alternatives to the randomized controlled trial / Richard L. Kravitz -- Synthesis of evidence : examples from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research / Vic Hasselblad. Establishing consensus / John H. Ferguson -- Controlled clinical trials for botanicals : available, possible, necessary? / Dr. Joerg Gruenwald -- Summary and conclusions [to Part II] / Ka Kit Hui -- The safety of botanicals : a historical perspective / Ryan J. Huxtable -- The information base for safety assessment of botanicals / Dennis V.C. Awang -- Safety monitoring of botanicals by government agencies / Lori A. Love -- Safety monitoring of medicinal plants in Europe (with special reference to Germany) / Barbara Steinhoff -- Safety of herbal remedies : surveillance in the United Kingdom / Virginia S.G. Murray, Debbie Shaw, and Christine Leon -- Good botanical practices / Michael J. Balick -- Quality of botanical preparations : environmental issues and methodology for detecting environmental contaminants / James D. McChesney -- Domestication and production considerations in quality control of botanicals / James E. Simon. Shipping, handling, receipt, and short-term storage of raw plant materials / Trish Flaster -- The processing of botanicals / Werner Busse -- Worldwide harmonization of botanical standards : a pharmacopeial view / Lee T. Grady -- The economics of botanicals : the European experience / Melville K. Eaves -- The economics of botanicals : the U.S. experience / Peggy Brevoort -- The botanical agenda, science, and incentives for research / Ted J. Kaptchuk -- Industry views on plant monographs / Hubertus Cranz -- Dietary supplement legislation / Stephen H. McNamara -- Regulatory models for approval of botanicals as traditional medicines / Mark Blumenthal -- Summary of principle findings and policy initiatives -- Summary of the Conference / Loren D. Israelsen.