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A holistic healing system that treats everything from colds to chronic illnesses to acne, Indonesian herbal medicine is probably one of the most simple, yet at the same time complex, forms of healing
Abstract: Natural products have played an important role in anticancer drug development for many decades. A recent review analyzing clinically approved anticancer drugs in Western countries and Japan during a twenty-five year period from 1981 to 2006 showed that, under the class of "non-biologicals/vaccines", 63 of 81 (77.8%) anticancer drugs were either natural products or their derivatives, or synthesized molecules based on natural product pharmacophores. As part of a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to the discovery of new naturally occurring anticancer drugs, two medicinal plants, namely, Hyptis brevipes and Vitex quinata, collected in Indonesia, were selected for further investigation.
This is the second volume in a series of monographs which are intended to promote information exchange and international harmonised standards for the quality control and use of herbal medicines. It contains scientific information on 30 selected plants, and each entry includes a pharmacopoeial summary for quality assurance purposes, information on its clinical application and sections on contraindications, pharmacology, safety issues, and dosage forms. It provides two cumulative indexes with entries in alphabetical order by plant name and according to the plant material of interest.
Volume 2 of the WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants provides an additional collection of 30 monographs covering the quality control and traditional and clinical uses of selected medicinal plants approved by 120 experts in more than 50 countries. The monographs are intended to promote international harmonization in the quality control and use of herbal medicines and to serve as models for the development of national formularies. They are a comprehensive scientific reference for drug regulatory authorities, physicians, traditional practitioners, pharmacists, manufacturers and research sci.