The use of selected medicinal herbs for chemoprevention and treatment of cancer, parkinson's disease, heart disease, and depression

Maureen McKenzie; Carl Li; Peter B. Kaufman; E. Mitchell Seymour; Ara Kirakosyan

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0194-1_11

The use of selected medicinal herbs for chemoprevention and treatment of cancer, parkinson's disease, heart disease, and depression

Maureen McKenzie
, Carl Li
, Peter B. Kaufman
, E. Mitchell Seymour
, Ara Kirakosyan

Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

University at Buffalo

L.L.C.
SUNY Buffalo
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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In this chapter, we present recent advances on the use of several different kinds of medicinal herbs to treat cancer, Parkinson's disease (PD), heart disease, and depression. These include recent studies on the use of Vaccinium spp. (blueberries and relatives) for cancer treatment and prevention; blueberries in the diet to improve motor skills and cognitive ability in patients with PD; digitalis (foxglove) to treat patients with heart disease; and St. John's wort that is used to treat patients with mild-to-moderate depression. The basic conclusion from these studies is that rigorous, well-designed clinical trials are needed to validate the safe use of these and other medicinal herbs for treatment of these and other diseases.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Recent Advances in Plant Biotechnology
Publisher	Springer US
Pages	231-287
Number of pages	57
ISBN (Print)	9781441901934
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0194-1_11
State	Published - 2009

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