Plant Profiles

Plant Profiles*



Black cohosh, 523

Blue cohosh, 528

Chaste Tree, 531

Dong quai, 534

Ginger, 536

Kava Kava, 539

Red clover, 542

St. John’s wort, 544

Uva ursi, 547

Summary Table of Herbs for Women’s Health 553



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:


• Black cohosh

• Blue cohosh

• Chaste berry

• Dong quai

• Ginger

• Kava

• Red clover

• St. John’s wort

• Uva ursi

• Wild yam

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:

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