Natural Products: A Case-Based Approach for Health Care Professionals
This new Case-Based text is intended for use in the classroom and as a reference for the practicing professional. Selected natural products represent those commonly in use today and most likely to be encountered by health professionals.
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Review by Andrew A. for Natural Products: A Case-Based Approach for Health Care Professionals
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I finished this book on a transatlantic flight and found it hard to put down. Although written primarily those treating patients directly, this book is written with an easy to read style that makes it enjoyable, and I think would be accessible even for those with less technical training. The author takes lots of study data and sumamrizes what is known and not known about the most common products our patients are using. The format uses patient cases as a learning tool. It also discusses the role of usual agents–and where the others fit in. I am much more confident in the use of these agents–and also in where to go when I need more information or wish to recommend a particular product. I highly recommend it.
Review by Medical Student for Natural Products: A Case-Based Approach for Health Care Professionals
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I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked up this book. There is so much misinformation and so many overstated claims on the internet that it’s hard sometimes to find resources about alternative medicine that you can trust. The author of this book is a pharmacist affiliated with an academic center, which are credentials that would reassure most of her target audience of health care providers.
After an introductory chapter that explains what natural products are, each of the rest of the chapters presents a common illness (dementia, BPH, common cold, etc.) and discusses the herbal remedies that are used for each one. The organization of the chapters, which include case presentations and summary tables with doses and side effects for each compound, makes the book easy to read. Also, I thought her presentation of herbal remedies was very fair. She made the book as evidence-based as possible, citing studies for each remedy whenever they were available. Even more valuable from the clinician’s perspective is that she also discussed potential interactions between herbal remedies and medications that some patients might be taking. The number of herbal remedies with the potential to interact with warfarin made a particularly strong impression on me.
After reading this book, I can’t say that I have become a huge fan of herbal remedies. There is this tendency among some patients to think that “natural” means “safe,” and as anyone who has ever had food poisoning knows, that’s just not true. However, after having read it, I do feel more knowledgeable about herbal remedies and more confident that I could counsel patients about the pros and cons of some of the more popular herbal remedies. If you are a physician, resident, NP, or PA who works in any kind of an outpatient setting, this book will give you a good basic background about the most popular herbal remedies that many of your patients are taking. You will still need a more comprehensive reference to help you with more specific questions, but this book will get you started.
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