Preface: Promoting the Worldwide Use of Medicinal Plants
-Timothy R. Tomlinson
Acknowledgments
MEDICINAL PLANTS, SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS, AND DEVELOPMENT
1. A Case History of Plant-Derived Drug Research: Phyllanthus and Hepatitis B Virus
-Baruch S. Blumberg, M.D.
2. An Expanded Program for Medicinal Plants
-Olayiwola Akerele, M.D.
MEDICINAL PLANTS IN THE SOCIOECONOMIC CONTEXT
3. Exploiting Medicinal Plants: Why Do It the Hard Way?
-Nathan Sivin, Ph.D.
4. Safety, Efficacy, and the Use of Medicinal Plants
-Norman R. Farnsworth, Ph.D.
5. Economics and Medicinal Plants
-Peter P. Principe
6. The Medicinal Plant Marketplace
-Robert S. McCaleb
CONSERVATION: ISSUES AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
7. Linking Ethnopharmacology and Tropical Forest: Conservation in Belize
-Michael J. Balick, Ph.D.
8. Exploitation of Medicinal Plants
-Akhtar Husain, Ph.D.
9. Agronomics and Medicinal Plants
-Dan Palevitch, Ph.D.
10. The Role of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta in Traditional Medicine: A Personal Reflection and Case Study
-William McKinley Klein, Jr., Ph.D.
PROMISING PRACTICES IN THE USE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS
11. The Legal Situation of Phytomedicines in Germany
-Barbara Steinhoff, Ph.D.
12. Indonesia: The Utilization of Medicinal Plants for Primary Health Care
-Djoko Hargono, Ph.D.
13. Ethnopharmacological Surveys in Brazilian Extractive Reserves
-Elaine Elisabetsky, Ph.D.
14. Traditional Korean Medicine
-Chong-Yul Kim, Ph.D.
15. Utilization and Conservation of Medicinal Plants in China with Special Reference to Atractylodes lancea
-He, Shan-An
16. Medicinal Plants in the Philippines
-Nelia P. Cortes-Maramba, M.D.
17. Promising Practices in the Use of Medicinal Plants in the United States
-Ara H. Dermarderosian, Ph.D.
REGULATORY ISSUES
18. Medicinal Plants and Phytomedicines within the European Community
-Hubertus Cranz, Ph.D.
19. The Evolving Status of Herbals and Phytomedicines in the United States
-Robert G. Pinco, Esq.
Appendices
A. WHO Guidelines for the Assessment of Herbal Medicines
B. A Recommendation for Governments around the World
List of Contributors
Index
