"Explore a natural approach to veterinary medicine. This practical, full-color clinical reference provides comprehensive coverage of the safe, effective use of herbal remedies for both large and small animals. It offers in-depth information on the clinical uses of medicinal plants, provides guidelines for formulating herbal remedies, and offers a body systems-based review of plant-based medicine. Species-specific information is provided for dogs, cats, horses, food animals, and poultry."--BOOK JACKET.

Introduction: why use herbs? -- Historical relationship between plants and animals -- Zoopharmacognosy -- Ethnoveterinary medicine: potential solutions for large-scale problems -- Roots of veterinary botanical medicine -- Overview of traditional Chinese medicine: the cooking pot analogy -- Ayurvedic veterinary medicine: principles and practice -- Herbal medicine controversies -- Evaluation, designing, and accessing herbal medicine research -- Regulation and quality control -- Skeptical view of herbal medicine -- Plants -- Medical botany -- Plant chemistry in veterinary medicine: medicinal constituents and their mechanisms of action -- Herbal medicine: potential for intoxication and interactions with conventional drugs -- Herbal energetics: a key to efficacy in herbal medicine -- Herb manufacture, pharmacy, and dosing -- Designing the medicinal herb garden -- Commercial production of organic herbs for veterinary medicine -- Conserving medicinal plant biodiversity -- Safe substitutes for endangered herbs: plant conservation and loss of our medicines -- Veterinary clinical uses of medicinal plants -- Approaches in veterinary herbal medicine prescribing -- Veterinary herbal medicine: a systems-based approach -- Herbal medicine in equine practice -- Phytotherapy for dairy cows -- Clinical practice: getting started -- Materia medica -- Weights and measures conversions -- Suppliers -- Training in herbal medicine -- Herbal terminology -- Client handout: hints on adminstering herbs to animals.