WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants VOLUME 1 World Health Organization Geneva 1999 WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants WHO Library Cataloguing in Publication Data WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants.—Vol. 1. 1.Plants, Medicinal 2.Herbs 3.Traditional medicine ISBN 92 4 154517 8 (NLM Classification: QV 766) The World Health Organization welcomes requests for permission to reproduce or translate its publications, in part or in full. Applications and enquiries should be addressed to the Office of Publications, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, which will be glad to provide the latest information on any changes made to the text, plans for new editions, and reprints and translations already available. © World Health Organization 1999 Publications of the World Health Organization enjoy copyright protection in accordance with the provisions of Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention. All rights reserved. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers’ products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by the World Health Organization in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. Errors and omissions excepted, the names of proprietary products are distinguished by initial capital letters. Designed by WHO Graphics Typeset in Hong Kong Printed in Malta 97/11795-Best-set/Interprint-6500 Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Monographs (in alphabetical order of plant name) Bulbus Allii Cepae 5 Bulbus Allii Sativi 16 Aloe 33 Aloe Vera Gel 43 Radix Astragali 50 Fructus Bruceae 59 Radix Bupleuri 67 Herba Centellae 77 Flos Chamomillae 86 Cortex Cinnamomi 95 Rhizoma Coptidis 105 Rhizoma Curcumae Longae 115 Radix Echinaceae 125 Herba Echinaceae Purpureae 136 Herba Ephedrae 145 Folium Ginkgo 154 Radix Ginseng 168 Radix Glycyrrhizae 183 Radix Paeoniae 195 Semen Plantaginis 202 Radix Platycodi 213 Radix Rauwolfiae 221 Rhizoma Rhei 231 Folium Sennae 241 Fructus Sennae 250 Herba Thymi 259 Radix Valerianae 267 Rhizoma Zingiberis 277 Annex Participants in the WHO Consultation on Selected Medicinal Plants 288 Acknowledgements Special acknowledgement is due to Professors Norman R. Farnsworth, Harry H. S. Fong, and Gail B. Mahady of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, for drafting and revising the monographs. WHO also acknowledges with thanks the members of the advisory group that met in Beijing, China, in 1994, to draw up a list of medicinal plants for which monographs should be prepared, the more than 100 experts who provided comments and advice on the draft texts, and those who participated in the WHO Consultation held in Munich, Germany, in 1996 to review the monographs (see Annex). Finally, WHO would like to thank the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization for their contributions and all those who submitted comments through the World Self-Medication Industry, a nongovernmental organization in official relations with WHO. etc...... (Original: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/1999/9241545178.pdf)