title: Revisiting the ancient concept of botanical therapeutics.
abstract: Mixtures of interacting compounds produced by plants may provide important combination therapies that simultaneously affect multiple pharmacological targets and provide clinical efficacy beyond the reach of single compound-based drugs. Developing innovative scientific methods for discovery, validation, characterization and standardization of these multicomponent botanical therapeutics is essential to their acceptance into mainstream medicine.
authors.affiliation: Rutgers University, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Biotech Center, 59 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA.
authors.forename: Barbara M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Ribnicky
authors.forename: Peter E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Lipsky
authors.forename: Ilya
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Raskin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001685:Biological Factors / Q000737:chemistry / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000188:drug therapy*; D017277:Drug Approval; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000639:trends; D015394:Molecular Structure; D028321:Plant Preparations / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D010944:Plants / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D001685:Biological Factors; D028321:Plant Preparations