Clinical Herbs app for iPhone and iPad


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Reference Medical
Developer: Elsevier Inc.
47.99 USD
Current version: 1.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 09 May 2012
App size: 27.12 Mb

Clinical Herbs is a convenient, concise and comprehensive application for all health care professionals.

Evidence-based herbal therapies are increasingly used for the management of disease, creating a demand for healthcare practitioners to understand the safety, efficacy and quality of herbal medicines in the treatment of common conditions.

Clinical Herbs includes herbal therapeutics of common conditions in Western, Chinese and Indian herbal medicine systems. The monographs include high quality images, chemical constituents, pharmacological activities, clinical efficacy, dose form, dosage, side effects and precautions. Most importantly, the clinical efficacy of all herbal therapies is ranked based on the Levels of Scientific Evidence defined by Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration.

The Database takes an integrative approach linking the traditional practice with evidence-based medicine. It will provide healthcare professionals with the essential information they need to be able to advise their patients.

Features:

Clinical Herbs is a convenient, concise and comprehensive quick reference tool for all healthcare professionals.

*Expert authors and scientific rigour
*The TGA Guidelines for Levels and Kinds of Evidence to Support Indications and Claims for Non-Registerable Medicines (2001) has been used to evaluate the level of evidence of individual herbs included in this database
*Monographs including high quality images, chemical constituents, pharmacological activities, clinical efficacy, dose form, dosage, side effects and precautions
*Phytotherapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic therapies for common conditions
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