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AHPA Celebrates 40th Anniversary
This year, the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) celebrates its 40th anniversary. Over four decades, AHPA has seen significant growth—now with more than 400 member companies across five continents, 17 committees representing key areas of industry interest and valuable resources that include second editions of AHPA’s Botanical Safety Handbook and Herbs of Commerce. To mark its 40th anniversary, AHPA will ...
Promising Herbs in the Treatment of COVID-19
Herbs have not received the same kind of attention from the scientific community for COVID-19 as have the more famous vitamins, such as vitamin C and vitamin D, or even isolated natural compounds like quercetin. Yet, herbal approaches to COVID-19 are certainly worth investigating. Consider that in China, more than 90 percent of COVID-19 patients’ ...
Peak Time for Botanicals!
Because of the pandemic, herbal products are “in season” with consumers! There is indeed a silver lining to everything, even something as universally reviled as the pandemic. COVID-19’s sliver of silver is the fact that people worldwide are not only paying much more attention to their health, they are switching to a preventive mindset and ...
AHPA Updates Online Botanical Safety Handbook
The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) has released updates via the online Botanical Safety Handbook 2nd ed. to four additional botanicals. AHPA has released a total of 31 updated entries to the online Botanical Safety Handbook in 2020. The following entries have been updated: Gotu kola (Centella asiatica) was updated after a review identified additional clinical trial, case report, ...
Herbs Found to Help Vanquish Lyme Bacterium
According to the Centers for Disease Control, each year, approximately 30,000 cases of Lyme disease are diagnosed. A spirochete bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi causes the disease, and blacklegged ticks are responsible for the majority of North American cases of the illness. Oils from garlic and several other common herbs and medicinal plants show strong activity ...
Herb Outlook 2019
Herbs are hot, no question. Here’s what topics are driving innovation and consumer demand. The plant kingdom is having a shining moment. Plants are being used for exotic new foods and beverages. Spices from remote corners of the globe are on supermarket shelves and featured in cooking media. And mainstream consumers are embracing herbal supplements. ...
Bill Brevoort, Chinese Herb Pioneer, Dies at 75
Iconic Chinese medicinal herb pioneer Bill Brevoort, 75, passed away at his home in Kona, HI on July 28. He had been recently diagnosed with metastatic melanoma. Brevoort was a truly remarkable man — intelligent, intrepid, focused and highly spiritual, as noted by the American Botanical Council (ABC). He and his wife Peggy Brevoort founded East ...
Nature’s Way Adopts Botanicals Through ABC’s Education Program
The American Botanical Council (ABC) acknowledges the support of Nature’s Way for ABC’s Adopt-an-Herb program. Nature’s Way, a supplement manufacturer and member of the Schwabe Group, has adopted five herbs on ABC HerbMedPro database: black cohosh (Actaea racemosa), hawthorn (Crataegus spp.), umckaloabo (Pelargonium sidoides), lavender (Lavandula spp.), and ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba). Nature’s Way’s adoptions ensure ...
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