The American Botanical Council, based in Austin, Texas, founded in 1988 by Mark Blumenthal, has announced it published its 9,000th Herbclip research summary. Herbclip continues to serve as an educational resource for researchers, scientists, health professionals, industry members and others.
HerbClips are two- to three-page summaries and critical reviews of scientific journal articles that cover medicinal plant-related human clinical research, ethnobotanical reviews, analytical methods, regulatory data, market information, conservation and sustainability studies, and more.
HerbClip summaries typically focus on the growing body of human clinical research on herbal products, including systematic reviews and meta-analyses of these trials. In the past 20 years, most HerbClips have been based on articles from a wide variety of peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals. In its earlier publications, many HerbClips also included summaries of monographs, government documents, special reports, trade journals, and news articles. In addition to summarizing the original article, HerbClips often include insights, perspectives, and links to other relevant articles or resources.
Whenever available, HerbClip reviews provide the trade name of the specific medicinal product on which a clinical study is based (including the name of the company that produced the product) and a description of the tested material. To help ensure accuracy, most HerbClip summaries and reviews are vetted by editors and peer reviewers before they are published.
“HerbClip has uniquely documented the explosive growth in clinical research on medicinal plant formulations,” said Blumenthal. “These days there are so many clinical research trials being published that we cannot keep up with the pace of publication. We now seldom produce HerbClip summaries and critical reviews on the thousands of studies that cover medicinal plant chemistry, toxicology, and pharmacological research each year — much of which is not always directly relevant to traditional and modern use of medicinal plants. Instead, we focus on human trials, making HerbClip a unique and invaluable resource.”
HerbClip summaries and reviews are available online through ABC’s website. The entire database of more than 9,000 HerbClip article summaries is searchable by common and Latin names of herbs, author names, journal and article titles, pharmacological actions, clinical endpoints, conditions, and more. Sixteen new HerbClips and an HerbClip News article are produced twice monthly. At least four HerbClips from each bi-weekly installment are available to the public for free.
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The American Botanical Council, based in Austin, Texas, founded in 1988 by Mark Blumenthal, has announced it published its 9,000th Herbclip research summary. Herbclip continues to serve as an educational resource for researchers, scientists, health professionals, industry members and others.
HerbClips are two- to three-page summaries and critical reviews of scientific journal articles that cover medicinal plant-related human clinical research, ethnobotanical reviews, analytical methods, regulatory data, market information, conservation and sustainability studies, and more.
HerbClip summaries typically focus on the growing body of human clinical research on herbal products, including systematic reviews and meta-analyses of these trials. In the past 20 years, most HerbClips have been based on articles from a wide variety of peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals. In its earlier publications, many HerbClips also included summaries of monographs, government documents, special reports, trade journals, and news articles. In addition to summarizing the original article, HerbClips often include insights, perspectives, and links to other relevant articles or resources.
Whenever available, HerbClip reviews provide the trade name of the specific medicinal product on which a clinical study is based (including the name of the company that produced the product) and a description of the tested material. To help ensure accuracy, most HerbClip summaries and reviews are vetted by editors and peer reviewers before they are published.
“HerbClip has uniquely documented the explosive growth in clinical research on medicinal plant formulations,” said Blumenthal. “These days there are so many clinical research trials being published that we cannot keep up with the pace of publication. We now seldom produce HerbClip summaries and critical reviews on the thousands of studies that cover medicinal plant chemistry, toxicology, and pharmacological research each year — much of which is not always directly relevant to traditional and modern use of medicinal plants. Instead, we focus on human trials, making HerbClip a unique and invaluable resource.”
HerbClip summaries and reviews are available online through ABC’s website. The entire database of more than 9,000 HerbClip article summaries is searchable by common and Latin names of herbs, author names, journal and article titles, pharmacological actions, clinical endpoints, conditions, and more. Sixteen new HerbClips and an HerbClip News article are produced twice monthly. At least four HerbClips from each bi-weekly installment are available to the public for free.
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