Preface to the First Edition. Preface. Acknowledgments. Editors. Expert Advisory Council. Introduction. A to Z Listing of Herbs. Appendix I: Herbal Constituent Profiles. Appendix 2: Herbal Action Profiles. Appendix 3: Herbal Interaction. Appendix 4: Safety of Botanicals in Pregnancy and Lactation. Appendix 5: Herb Listings by Classification.
Zoë Gardner has studied, researched, and taught production, conservation, quality, safety, and appropriate use of medicinal plants since 1998. After completing her undergraduate degree in environmental studies at the Audubon Expedition Institute, Zoë helped to establish the Medicinal Plant Program at the University of Massachusetts, earning her master’s degree there in plant and soil sciences. More recently, Zoë joined the Research & Development Department at Traditional Medicinals, a leading producer of herbal dietary supplements.
Michael McGuffin
has been active in the herbal industry since 1975, having owned and managed both retail and manufacturing businesses in this field. He is the managing editor of Botanical Safety Handbook, 1st edition (1997) and of Herbs of Commerce, 2nd edition (2000). He serves on the boards of the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia and United Plant Savers, on the Advisory Board of the USC School of Pharmacy Regulatory Science Program, and as chair of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for ISO/TC 249—the International Organization for Standardization’s Technical Committee on Traditional Chinese Medicine. Michael maintains active involvement with regulatory agencies. He served on FDA’s Food Advisory Committee Working Group on Good Manufacturing Practices for Dietary Supplements, FDA’s Food Advisory Committee’s Dietary Supplements Subcommittee, and California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Analysis Food Warning Workgroup."AHPA’s Botanical Safety Handbook is, without a doubt, an extremely
valuable reference book that is highly recommended to product
manufacturers, healthcare practitioners, regulatory agencies,
industrial and academic researchers, and herbal product
consumers."
—Charles J. Knill and John F. Kennedy, Chembiotech Laboratories, in
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules"Whenever there
are questions or compositional uncertainties about a material, the
toxicologist’s brow becomes populated with beads of perspiration.
However, in the case of quantifying toxicity and making a human
health risk assessment for a botanical product or component the
toxicologists can get help from the American Herbal Products
Association’s Botanical Safety Handbook, Second Edition (BSH).
The BSH is hefty by any objective measure such as dimensions,
weight and content; it will likely be judged by its users as
comprehensive. BSH covers over 500 herbs within almost 1,100
pages.
BSH is a valuable resource for a toxicologist to understand the
arena in which he or she is practicing their profession … using BSH
gives valuable background information located in one place,
reducing the literature searching time for obtaining background
information on a botanical.
… the BSH is a necessary reference in the personal library of
toxicologists that routinely conduct hazard analyses and human
health risk assessments of botanicals. Those toxicologists that
assess the human health risks of botanicals will find a vast amount
of generic background information that will supplement their
activities. In addition, toxicologists will discover clear and
valuable guidance and directions for making their human health risk
assessments of botanicals."
—John A. Budny in the International Journal of Toxicology, 2013 32:
466"… Although this edition covers approximately the same number of
herbs as the first, expanded entries quadruple the number of pages.
Records for medicinal herbs include summaries and reference lists,
safety and interaction classifications, name variants, and plant
partes) used. Inaccurate/unsubstantiated information often appears
in publications providing safety evaluations of natural products.
To increase the validity of this handbook, attempts were made to
identify questionable reports as well as studies lacking sufficient
details about formulations used; when included, limitations of such
studies are noted. … This reference work will appeal to health care
professionals, members of the public, and industry personnel
interested in the safety and potential interactions of herbal
products. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and
above; general readers.
—J. Saxton, Bastyr University, in CHOICE Magazine"I have long
anticipated examining an upgraded second edition. I was pleased to
find that the revised content included input from a highly
qualified expert advisory council … The vastly expanded content
provides safety information on more than 550 species of herbs and
includes new herbs, many from the Ayurvedic tradition. … overall
this book fills an essential niche by intelligently addressing
specific practical issues in the broad context of botanical safety
concerns. I certainly will be referring to it regularly."
—Francis Brinker, ND, HerbalGram, Issue 99, 2013"Now, thanks to the
recent publication of the new edition of the American Herbal
Products Association’s (AHPA) Botanical Safety Handbook, no health
professional needs to make an uninformed decision [on drug
interactions with herbs] ever again. … The most exhaustive
reference of its kind ever assembled, the AHPA Botanical Safety
Handbook distills in one place hundreds of thousands of pages of
scientific and medical information on herbs – the most widely
employed class of health remedies in the world. Without question,
the handbook answers the question, "Is it safe?" … With the AHPA
Botanical Safety Handbook on hand, now every doctor, nurse,
pharmacist, clinic and hospital can have readily on hand the
definitive guide to recurring herbal questions."
—Chris Kilham, Foxnews.com, May 8, 2013"...a very valuable
reference for anyone selling, manufacturing or using medicinal
herbs and perhaps will help clear the way for setting better legal
and labeling standards of herbs."
—American Herb Association "A basic reference text which should be
on every herbalist's shelf! . . . It is very complete and includes
many Chinese and Ayurvedic herbs as well. Congratulations to AHPA
on an excellent and much needed text. Thank you!"
—Robyn's Recommended Reading"An absolutely necessary reference
book, this book gives cautions and contraindications for more than
600 plants. Don't expect fun reading-it is strictly a reference
book. BUY IT!"
—The Herbal Connection"The Handbook is a very readable and
authoritative reference for herbal products, their usage, toxicity,
and contraindications."
—The Microscope"This book represents a significant revision and
expansion of the first edition… [it is] a very important,
extraordinarily detailed compilation of safety data on botanicals
used in human health products. It will be an excellent resource for
pharmacists and other healthcare professionals, academicians,
researchers, regulators, consumers, and even marketers and
advertisers. Every school of pharmacy, medicine, and nursing should
have a copy in its library."
—John H. Cardellina, II, ReevesGroup Virginia Beach, Virginia,
United States
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