Natural Medicines: Clinical Efficacy, Safety and Quality
暫譯: 天然藥物：臨床療效、安全性與品質

全球範圍內，自然醫學被視為現代西醫的重要替代方案。儘管自然醫藥在社會上受到廣泛歡迎，但只有有限的藥用植物經過科學評估以確認其在醫療治療中的潛力。本書連結了從傳統醫學到現代醫學的複雜旅程的各個方面。它提供了有關全球法規和監管障礙、多樣的營養挑戰和潛在健康益處、新穎的食品創新，特別是從種子到診所的方法，以及未來趨勢的資訊。

**特色**

- 提供有關在新藥開發和臨床驗證的草藥療法中可持續使用自然產品的資訊
- 討論草藥醫學的評估和臨床方面的問題，包括推廣和發展、安全評估、代謝物分析、生物標記分析、配方和穩定性測試
- 通過識別、分離和結構特徵化其活性成分，描述自然醫學的傳統用途
- 闡明自然醫學的生物作用機制、不良反應及其分子靶標的識別
- 涉及化學、藥理學、藥用植物學、細胞和分子生物學等多學科領域，並與臨床醫學整合

本書是研究自然醫學的個人以及在藥物開發、藥理學、天然產品化學、臨床療效、民族藥理學、藥用植物學、植物療法、植物技術和草藥科學等領域工作的行業人員的重要指南。

Dilip Ghosh, PhD, FACN is an international speaker, facilitator and author and professionally associated with SOHO-Flordis International (SFI), Australia; Honorary Ambassador, Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI), University of Western Sydney. He received a PhD in biomedical science from the University of Calcutta, India along with a BSc (Hons) and MSc degrees in Zoology/Microbiology, MPhil in Environmental Sciences.With more than 20 years of experience in both pharmaceutical and food-nutrition industries, he is one of the pioneer researchers in the evaluation of the health claims opportunities of potential functional food ingredients & complementary medicines through an evaluation of the current scientific evidence base and related claims, and provides commentary on gaps in science including potential requirements for research such as human studies.Dr. Ghosh has published more than 70 papers in peer reviewed journals, numerous articles in food and nutrition magazines and books. His recent books, "Biotechnology in functional foods and nutraceuticals", "Innovation of healthy and functional foods" & "Clinical aspects of functional foods and nutraceuticals" by CRC Press have been published in 2010, 2012 & 2014, respectively. Dr. Ghosh is Review Editor, Frontiers in Nutrigenomics (2011 to present), American Journal of Advanced Food Science and Technology (2012 to present), J of Obesity & Metabolic Research (2013 to present), J of Bioethics (2013 to present), Associate Editor & member, Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, Taylor & Francis, USA (2006-2007), Columnist of The World of Nutraceuticals, USA.

Professor Pulok K. Mukherjee, PhD is working as the Director, School of Natural Product Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His research/academic works highlights on traditional medicine inspired drug discovery from Indian medicinal plants to make them available from 'Farm to Pharma'. His research career has been outstanding, including globally acclaimed contributions on teaching and research on validation of medicinal plants from India systems of medicine, their formulation and standardization, which are useful bio-prospecting tools for the traditional medicine based drug discovery programme. He has to his credit more than 200 publications in peer reviewed impact journals, several patents and 22 books/book chapters. His research publications have cumulative Impact Factor of 210; h-Index- 47, i10-index - 161; which has been cited for over 10380 times. Dr Mukherjee is serving as Associate Editor of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Elsevier Science. He is the member of the editorial board of several International journals including Phytomedicine, Life Science, Pharmaceutical analysis, Synergy; Phytochemical Analysis, World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and many others. Dr Mukherjee has been awarded with so many laurels from Govt. of India and abroad; to name a few: awarded with the prestigious Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship from Association of Commonwealth Universities [ACU], UK; TATA innovation fellowship, by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India; Outstanding Service Award from Drug Information association [DIA], USA; Career Award for Young Teacher from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Govt. of India; Best Pharmaceutical Scientist of the Year, from the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers' of India (APTI) and many others.

迪利普·戈什（Dilip Ghosh），博士，FACN 是國際演講者、促進者和作者，並與澳大利亞的 SOHO-Flordis International (SFI) 專業相關；西悉尼大學全球協調倡議（Global Harmonization Initiative, GHI）榮譽大使。他在印度加爾各答大學獲得生物醫學科學博士學位，並擁有動物學/微生物學的榮譽學士學位和碩士學位，以及環境科學的碩士研究學位。擁有超過 20 年的製藥和食品營養行業經驗，他是評估潛在功能性食品成分和補充醫藥健康聲明機會的先驅研究者之一，通過評估當前的科學證據基礎和相關聲明，並對科學中的空白提供評論，包括人類研究等潛在研究需求。戈什博士在同行評審的期刊上發表了超過 70 篇論文，以及在食品和營養雜誌及書籍上發表了多篇文章。他最近的書籍《功能性食品和營養補充品中的生物技術》、《健康和功能性食品的創新》及《功能性食品和營養補充品的臨床方面》由 CRC Press 分別於 2010、2012 和 2014 年出版。戈什博士擔任《營養基因組學前沿》（Frontiers in Nutrigenomics，2011 至今）、《美國先進食品科學與技術期刊》（American Journal of Advanced Food Science and Technology，2012 至今）、《肥胖與代謝研究期刊》（J of Obesity & Metabolic Research，2013 至今）、《生物倫理學期刊》（J of Bioethics，2013 至今）的審稿編輯，並曾擔任美國泰勒與法蘭西斯（Taylor & Francis）《毒理學機制與方法》的副編輯及成員（2006-2007），以及美國《營養補充品世界》（The World of Nutraceuticals）的專欄作家。

普洛克·K·穆克吉（Pulok K. Mukherjee），博士 現任印度加爾各答的賈達夫普爾大學自然產品研究學院院長。他的研究/學術工作重點在於從印度藥用植物中啟發的傳統醫學藥物發現，旨在實現“從農場到製藥”的可用性。他的研究生涯卓越，對印度醫學系統的藥用植物的驗證、配方和標準化的教學和研究做出了全球公認的貢獻，這些都是傳統醫學基礎的藥物發現計劃中有用的生物勘探工具。他擁有超過 200 篇在同行評審的影響力期刊上發表的出版物、數項專利和 22 本書籍/書章。他的研究出版物累計影響因子為 210；h-指數為 47，i10-指數為 161；被引用次數超過 10380 次。穆克吉博士擔任《民族藥理學期刊》（Journal of Ethnopharmacology，Elsevier Science）的副編輯。他是多本國際期刊的編輯委員會成員，包括《植物醫學》（Phytomedicine）、《生命科學》（Life Science）、《藥物分析》（Pharmaceutical analysis）、《協同作用》（Synergy）、《植物化學分析》（Phytochemical Analysis）、《世界傳統中醫期刊》（World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine）等。穆克吉博士曾獲得印度政府及國外的多項榮譽；其中包括：獲得英國英聯邦大學協會（Association of Commonwealth Universities, ACU）頒發的英聯邦學術人員獎學金、印度政府生物技術部頒發的塔塔創新獎學金、來自美國藥物信息協會（Drug Information Association, DIA）的傑出服務獎、印度全國技術教育委員會（All India Council for Technical Education, AICTE）頒發的青年教師職業獎、印度藥學教師協會（Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India, APTI）頒發的年度最佳藥學科學家獎等多項榮譽。