Number 23 The Journal of the AMERICAN BOTANI CAL COUNCIL and the HERB RESEARCH FOUNDATION Chinese Medicinals -A Comprehensive Review of Chinese Materia Medica Legal and Regulatory- FDA OTC Reviews Summary of Back Issues Ongoing Market Report, Research Reviews (glimpses of studies published in over a dozen scientific and technical journals), Access, Book Reviews, Calendar, Legal and Regulatory, Herb Blurbs and Potpourri columns. #1 -Summer 83 (4 pp.) Eucalyptus Repels Reas, Stones Koalas; FDA OTC tiveness; Fungal Studies; More Polysaccharides; Recent Research on Ginseng; Heart Panel Reviews Menstrual & Aphrodisiac Herbs; Tabasco Toxicity?; Garlic Odor Peppers; Yew Continues to Amaze; Licorice O.D. Prevention; Ginseng in Perspec­ Repels Deer; and more. tive; Poisonous Plants Update; Medicinal Plant Conservation Project; 1989 Oberly #2- Fall/Winter 83-84 (8 pp.) Appeals Court Overrules FDA on Food Safety; Award Nominations; Trends in Self-Care Conference; License Plates to Fund Native FDA Magazine Pans Herbs; Beware of Bay Leaves; Tiny Tree: Cancer Cure?; Plant Manual; and more. Comfrey Tea Recall; plus. #17-Summer 88. (24 pp.) Sarsaparilla, A Literature Review by Christopher #3-Spring 84 (8 pp.) Celestial Sells to Kraft; Rowers and Dinosaurs Demise?; Hobbs; Hops May Help Metabolize Toxins; Herbal Roach Killer; Epazote Getting Citrus Peels for Kitty Litter; Saffron; Antibacterial Sassafras; WHO Studies Anti· More Popular, Aloe Market Levels Off; Herbal Tick Repellent?; Chinese Herb fertility Plants; Chinese Herbal Drugs; Feverfew Migraines; Ginseng as Cash Crop; Products Regulated; Celestial Seasonings Independent Again; Texas Botanical and more. Garden; Plant Invaders; Interview with Professor H. Wagner; Research on Herbal #4 - November 84. (12 pp.) Rebuttal to FDA Article; Medicinal Effects of Cancer Remedies; New Tool in Antibiotic Arsenal; Antiviral Alkaloids Inhibit AIDS Eggplant Leaves; Ayurvedic Medicine for Sciatica & Arthritis; Coffee and Iron Virus; Neurological Disease from Plant Seeds; All About Indoles; Huh? Lizard's Absorption; Synthetic Garlic; Lethal Chocolate Chips; Alternative Approaches to Tale?; Sedative Peanut Leaves; Cardiac Benefits of Tienchi Ginseng; Antitumor Gout; plus. Effects of Sophora; Anti-aging Formula; Chinese Arthritis Treatment; Kava Cov­ #5 -Spring 85. (12 pp.) FDA Sues GNC; Herbalife vs. FDA; Herb Traders ered in Two Newspapers; Gin Ads Reveal Herbal Ingredients; High Flying Wild Beware; Onions & Hypoglycemic Compound; Fenugreek Reduces Insulin Need?; Rowers; Traditional Medicine of China, Vietnam Covered; Forest Watch; Herb Black Walnut Repels Reas; Psyllium Allergy; Willow Tree Rooting Compound; Industty Adopts Lady's Slipper Resolution; and more. Yohimbine for Sexual Therapy; Parsley Reviewed; The Sciences of Herbs; Soothing #18/19 Double issue- Fall 1988/Winter 1989. (48 pp.) American Botanical Chamomile; Eleuthero & the Liver; and more. Council Formed; How Did Van Gogh?; Can Wintergreen Light Up Your Smile?; #6 - Summer 85. (12 pp.) Desert Plants for Future Foods?; Hispanic Folk What's In A Name?- Rax Facts; Tobacco Headed Down Primrose Path in Canada; Medicines; Ginger for Motion Sickness; Ipecac Abuse; Toxic Clove Cigarettes; Chaparral: One of Oldest Plants on Earth; Did You Read Your Morning Kenar!; New Herbal Sweetener; Chilies & Ulcers; Milk Thistle Extracts; Ginseng for Liver Epazote: An Herbal Cure for the Greenhouse Effect?; Pepped-Up Potency in Herbs; Damage; plus. Nobel Laureate Supports Natural Products Research; Mate Production Rises in #7 - Fall 85. (12 pp.) Fund for Herb Safety Review; Scullcap Substitution; Argentina; Northwest Herbalists of Note; Japanese Herbalists on Northwest Walk; Therapeutic Gingko Trees; Ginseng & Potency; Dahlia as New Sweetener; Herbal "Marijuana, Cranberries: Gaining Respect"; African Herbal Medicine; Herbs Be­ Cures for Heroin & Opium; American Ginseng Harvest; Jojoba vs. IRS; Aromath­ corning "Big Business" in China; The Hoxsey Film: Can Healing Become a Crime?; erapy for Stress; Bloodroot in Oral Hygiene; and more. The Synthetic Silver Bullet vs. The Herbal Shotgun Shell; Benefits of Garlic; New #8-Winter 86. (12pp.) Call for Government-sponsored Natural Drug Research, Clinical Test of Garlic; AIDS News: St. John's Wort Inhibits Retrovirus; New by Dr. Jim Duke; Ginseng & Aging; Chinese Herbs Treat Altitude Sickness; Sweet Feverfew Headache Research; Souped-up Polysaccharide Against HIV; Spirulina Wormwood for Malaria; Feverfew for Arthritis?; Coca Leaf Tea; and more. Returns to the News; GuarGum for the Heart; Cranberry Juice for Urinary Infections; #9-Spring 86. (12 pp.) Canadian Expert Panel Makes Herb Use Recommen­ Huperzia: Hype or Hope?; Huperzia: The China/Pittsburgh Connection; St. John's dations; Herbal Bibliographic Service; Methods in Phytochemistry; Valerian's Wort: A Review by Christopher Hobbs; Native American Medicinal Plant Value; Feverfew Fever, Faulty Herbal "Scare" Articles; Juicy Jaborandi; and more. Stamps; Rora of China Translation Becomes International Effort; Crop Diversifi ­ Recommended Reading Reprints: "Medicinal Plants in Therapy": by Professor cation Essential; Herbal Seeker to Merge with Digest; and more. Norman R. Farnsworth; "Herbal Water Purification?" by Dr. Jim Duke. #20- Spring 1989. (52 pp.) Scientists Develop Anti-cancer Tobacco; Cactus #10- Summer/Fall 86. (16 pp.) Major FDA Policy Shift on Herbs; Chemobyl Lowers Blood Glucose Levels; Spicy Food and Stomach Distress; Sex Change in Limits Supplies, Raises Prices; Garlic Studied for Obesity & Meningitis; GuarGum Dwarf Ginseng; Medical Students Introduced to Native Cures; "Secrets of the Rain for Diabetes; Tumor Inhibitor in Licorice; Anti-cancer Effect of Mistletoe and Forest"; Foster Studies Herbals in China; Plant Medicine Importance Stressed by Turmeric; and more. Special Report: Overview of Spice Marketing. CSU Professor; Producer of Ginseng Extract Profiled; Garlic May Reduce Bad #11- Winter 87. (16 pp.) Plant Drugs in the 21st Century; Biologists Race to Cholesterol; Update on Regulations for Herbal Formulas Sold in Canada; Revision Save Tropical Rain Forests; Natural Blood Thinners; Chinese Antitumor Plants; of Endangered Species Act Increases Protection; Special Report: Compound Q Herbal Gout Remedy for Severe Cirrhosis; Banana Peel for Plantar's Warts; $2.68 (Trichosanthes lcirilowii) A New Hope in the AIDS-relief Search?; New Strategy Million for Plant Cancer Cures; and more. Against AIDS: Castor Bean Complex; NCI Upgrades Natural Products Research; #12- Spring 87. (16 pp.) Ayurveda, the Traditional Herbal Medicine of India; Holy Basil! More Immunostimulants!; Antitumor Properties of Chlorella; Garlic Thai Medicinal Plants; Herbal Dream Inducer; Mexican Vanilla Revisited; Eleuth­ Fights Candida and Cancer; Feverfew: A Literature Review by Christopher ero and Soviet Athletes; Ginseng Growing Grows; and more. Hobbs; The Modem Rediscovery of Feverfew; and more. #13- Summer 87. (16 pp.) The Economic Significance of Herbs; Swedish Court #21- Fall 1989. (52 pp.) In Memoriam: Nathan Podhurst; Goldenseal Masking Ruling in Evening Primrose Oil; Court Nixes FDA DALS; Society for Economic of Drug Tests; AHPA & HRF Herb Safety Review Program; ABC Classic Botanical Botany Symposium on the Investigation of Folk Medicine; Ginseng Anti-aging Reprint Series; Pineapple for Rapid Healing; Mangoes for Herpes?; Banana Peel Effect; Immune-enhancing Effects of Ginseng; Anti-ulcer Activity of Germander; vs. Poison Ivy; Biotech Essential Oils; Australian Beer Nut; Ginseng and Chinese Saikosaponin For Kidney Disease; Native Plant Survey Being Conducted; Mesquite Herbs Coverage; Native Wild Foods Business; Yerba Buena; Podophyllotoxin Pods: Future Food?; and more. Complexity; Bupleurum Research Update; Pharmacology of Lemongrass; Astra­ #14- Fall 87. (16 pp.) Celestial Seasonings Sold to Lipton, Inc.; Anti-diabetic galus Enhances Killer Cell Activity; Coltsfoot in Death of Infant; Guava U:af Effect of Ginseng; NOVA Airs "The Hidden Power of Plants"; Botanist Duke Update; Mistletoe&NKCells; OTC/FDA Update; Valerian: A Literature Review; Profiled in Washington Post; Chaparral and Mosquito Longevity; Mood-elevating Conservation/Research Programs; C02 and Flavor Manufacturers; and more. Bananas; Special Report on Herbal Data Bases; Ethnobiology Update; An Emerging #22 -(52 pp.) Black Pearls Lose Their Luster; The Lloyd Library; Spicy Eyes: Science of Varying Specialities; and more. Yellow Root for Pinkeye?; Don't Needle Me About Herbal Remedies; Bovine #15 -Winter 88. (24 pp.) Major Herb Conference in Thailand; Export control Arornatherapy; Rats! Wormwood in the Paper; Sesame Rowers for Treatment of of Ladyslipper; Canada Bans Comfrey Leaf; Tea Tannins Reduce Cholesterol; Warts; Onions and Red Wine:Cancer Diet?; Juglone Kills Algae ... and Fish; Organic Feverfew for Physicians; Gingko Makes Big News; Licorice Retards Tooth Decay; Herbs in The Furrow; A New Look at Botanical Medicine; Science Notes Medicinal Lomatium - Herbal Viricide?; Neem Extract- Natural Pesticide; Search for Anti­ Plant Research; New York Timl!s Slant on Herbs; Texas Aloe Vera Crop Cancer Plants Funded by NCI; Digitalis Depressing?; EPA Pertnjts Use of Herbicide Devestated;The Search for Soma; Motherwort for the Heart; Ginkgo for Brain Alachlor; APHA Establishes OTC Committee; and more. Damage?; Natural Oral Contraceptives; Herbal Extract Speeds Fracture Healing; #16 - Spring 88. (24 pp.) Farnsworth Joins HRF Advisory Board; AHPA Tannins as Free Radical Scavengers; Eclipta Alba Research; "Traditional