Herbal Medicines: Current Advances and Clinical Prospects
A special issue of J (ISSN 2571-8800). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicine & Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 8390
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chronic pain; severe pain; plant medicines; traditional healing; California Indian healing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue on recent advances in the clinical use of herbal medicines. Herbal medicines are used clinically by the majority of the global population. The acceptance of these medicines for use by medical doctors requires support from preclinical data, clinical data, and clinical trial data, which this Special Issue aims to provide. Safety, efficacy, cost and environmental sustainability issues must be taken into account; for example, herbal medicines that are collected in the wild should include a discussion of how to prevent the depletion of wild sources. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: anti-inflammatory agents, anticancer agents, cardiovascular agents, agents for use in diabetes, antiobesity agents, pain management, and chronic pain medicines.
Dr. James David Adams
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- efficacy
- safety
- cost analysis
- environmental sustainability
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