Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: Promoting the Worldwide Use of Medicinal Plants ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Medicinal Plants, Scientific Progress, and Development
6. 1. A Case History of Plant-Derived Drug Research: Phyllanthus and Hepatitis B Virus 3
7. 2. An Expanded Program for Medicinal Plants 11
8. Medicinal Plants in the Socioeconomic Context
9. 3. Exploiting Medicinal Plants: Why Do It the Hard Way? 19
10. 4. Safety, Efficacy, and the Use of Medicinal Plants 29
11. 5. Economics and Medicinal Plants 42
12. 6. The Medicinal Plant Marketplace 55
13. Conservation: Issues and Future Prospects
14. 7. Linking Ethnopharmacology and Tropical Forest: Conservation in Belize 71
15. 8. Exploitation of Medicinal Plants 82
16. 9. Agronomics and Medicinal Plants 103
17. 10. The Role of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta in Traditional Medicine: A Personal Reflection and Case Study 120
18. Promising Practices in the Use of Medicinal Plants
19. 11. The Legal Situation of Phytomedicines in Germany 137
20. 12. Indonesia: The Utilization of Medicinal Plants for Primary Health Care 144
21. 13. Ethnopharmacological Surveys in Brazilian Extractive Reserves 149
22. 14. Traditional Korean Medicine 156
23. 15. Utilization and Conservation of Medicinal Plants in China with Special Reference to Atractylodes lancea 161
24. 16. Medicinal Plants in the Philippines 169
25. 17. Promising Practices in the Use of Medicinal Plants in the United States 177
26. Regulatory Issues
27. 18. Medicinal Plants and Phytomedicines within the European Community 193
28. 19. The Evolving Status of Herbals and Phytomedicines in the United States 198
29. Appendixes 205
30. Contributors 213
31. Index 219