Plant Profiles*
INTRODUCTION TO PLANT PROFILES
These plant profiles are intended to serve as “monographs in brief.” The herbs were selected specifically because they are used frequently in gynecology and obstetrics and there is some amount of controversy surrounding their use or safety. Included in this chapter are profiles on:
In addition, a comprehensive table of all of the herbs in this text is presented at the end of this section for the convenience of the reader who may wish to quickly reference in toto, the clinical use and safety information for the herbs in this textbook as applied to women’s health conditions. A separate table on herb–drug interactions appears in the appendices. For the sake of simplicity the data in the Plant Profiles and Summary Table of Herbs for Women’s Health are not individually referenced. Rather, readers are directed to the following sources from which information for the plant profiles was drawn:
