Responding to the increased popularity of herbal medicine and other forms of complementary or alternative medicine, this reference reviews and critically evaluates various safety, toxicity and quality-control issues relating to the field.   Content: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Series Introduction; Preface; Contents; Contributors; 1 Integrating Traditional and Complementary Medicine into National Health Care; 2 Can Traditional Medicine Coexist with Modern Medicine in the Same Health Care System?; 3 Clinical Trials for Herbal Extracts; 4 Herbal Medicine; 5 Effects of Phytochemicals in Chinese Functional Ingredients on Gut Health; 6 Tea and Health; 7 Ginkgo biloba; 8 Ginger; 9 Lingzhi Polyphorous Fungus (Ganoderma lucidum); 10 Epimedium Species; 11 Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort; 12 Salvia miltiorrhiza. 13 Schisandrin B and Other Dibenzocyclooctadiene Lignans14 Spirulina; 15 Averrhoa bilimbi; 16 Lentinus edodes; 17 Cruciferous Vegetables and Chemoprevention; 18 Pharmacological and Chemopreventive Studies of Chrysanthemum; 19 Andrographis paniculata and the Cardiovascular System; 20 Rosemary; 21 Crataegus (Hawthorn); 22 Resveratrol; 23 Pharmacological and Physiological Effects of Ginseng; 24 Antioxidant Activities of Prickly Pear (Opuntia. Abstract:             Responding to the increased popularity of herbal medicine and other forms of complementary or alternative medicine, this reference reviews and critically evaluates various safety, toxicity and quality-control issues relating to the field

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