The Handbook Of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies

Edited by Marilyn Barrett, PhD
Published by Haworth Press, June 2004
Two Volumes; Hardcover
1,435 pages
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Not All Milk Thistle Is Alike, And This Book
Verifies That Fact ...
Milk thistle may be the
number one doctor-recommended liver herb...
But, Maximum Milk
Thistle is the only clinically-tested brand of milk thistle
available in the USA.
For this reason, Maximum Milk Thistle is
the only milk thistle brand listed in the Handbook
of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies.
Maximum Milk Thistle is also the most potent of all
milk thistle formulas. This is because its patented formula gets
up to ten times more liver protection power into your bloodstream.
"...far superior to simple
milk thistle extract in every respect... Dr.
Michael Murray, leading natural health expert
and author, Encyclopedia
of Natural Medicine.
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If You Are Concerned
About Your Liver—
Don't Settle For Inferior
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Thistle...
And You Can See The Medical
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Proven
By Science (Review
the clinical studies...)
Recommended By Experts (See
their recommendations...)
Preferred By Patients (Read
their comments...)
If You Are Serious About Protecting Your Liver, Ask
Yourself These Questions:
- When you can use a scientifically tested and clinically-validated
brand like Maximum Milk Thistle to protect and support
your liver, why would you choose one that was not?
- How would you know
what safety and effectiveness you are getting from
an untested and unproven formula?
- Why would you take a chance with unproven products when
it comes to your health and well being?
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More About This Book:
The Handbook of Clinically Tested
Herbal Remedies is the reference tool you need to distinguish
those herbal products
that have been
clinically tested from those for which there is little or no
real evidence that substantiates or disputes their claims of efficacy.
Published in 2004, this essential volume provides
a snapshot of 160 herbal products that have been tested in clinical
trials.
Details
of the products
and the clinical trials they underwent are here in an easy-to-read,
at-a-glance format.
Buy
The Handbook of Clinically Tested Herbal Remedies, here.
Not only
does this book list proprietary herbal products that have been
tested in controlled clinical studies and provide a rating of the
quality
of those trials, but, it also describes the fundamentals of herbal
medicine, including regulation, characterization, standardization,
bioavailability, efficacy, safety, pharmacopoeial monographs
as well as incentives, or lack of incentive, for US and European
manufacturers
to conduct clinical studies.
Maximum Milk Thistle and its
manufacturer,
Natural Wellness, are listed in
this book.
And you can buy Maximum Milk Thistle directly from Natural Wellness right
here from this website.
The only two other milk thistle products listed are
80% standardized extracts that are available only in Europe.
In fact, the German product, Legalon, is the same one Maximum Milk
Thistle was tested against in clinical studies where Maximum
Milk Thistle was shown to be eight to ten times more absorbable.
Here are a few citations from this book
regarding Maximum Milk Thistle and its clinically-proven superior
formula:
"(The active
ingredient in Maximum Milk Thistle) is a complex of silybin combined
with phosphatidylcholine containing 29.7
to 36.3
percent silybin. An initial pilot study was conducted on
a product with a molar ratio of silybin to phosphatidylcholine
of 1:1 (Buzzelli
et.al., 1993)."
"The current product is manufactured with
a ratio of silybin to phosphatidylcholine of 1:2. Sold
in
the United States under the name Maximum
Milk Thistle by Natural Wellness."
"Two double blind, placebo-controlled
studies were conducted with (the active ingredient in Maximum
Milk Thistle), a milk thistle extract (silybin) combined
with phosphatidylcholine."
Chronic Hepatitis
"A well conducted study with 65 subjects with chronic persistent
hepatitis proven with a biopsy were treated for three
months with placebo or 240 mg silybin (720 mg Maximum Milk
Thistle)
per day.
As a result, a statistically significant reduction in
serum aminotranserases (AST and ALT) was observed in the treatment
group compared to
placebo (Marcelli et al. 1992)."
Viral Hepatitis
"In a short pilot study, 20 patients with active viral
hepatitis due to hepatitis B and/or Hepatitis C were
treated with
either 480 mg silybin (1440 mg Maximum Milk Thistle)
or placebo
for one week. A significant decrease in serum aminotransferases
(AST, ALT,
and GGT) and bilirubin levels was observed in the treated
group
compared to the placebo group (Buzzelli
et al., 1993)."
Closing Remarks:
There are other clinical
studies available, but only
these two are referenced in this book.
In the book there
are also studies showing the effectiveness and safety of regular
80% standardized
milk thistle extract.
It is important to note that the only difference
between 80% standardized milk thistle and Maximum Milk Thistle
is that
eight
to ten times
more
Maximum Milk Thistle gets into your bloodstream to protect
and support your liver (as also shown
in published clinical tests).
Learn more, here.
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Contributors to The Handbook of Clinically
Tested Herbal Remedies include:
Dr. Varro Tyler,
Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Purdue University and co-author
of Tyler’s Honest Herbal, Rational Phytotherapy,
and Tyler’s Herbs of Choice
Loren Israelsen, JD, president of the LDI group
Tieraona Low Dog, MD, Chair of the USP Dietary
Supplement Information Committee
Joerg Grünwald, PhD, co-author of the Physicians
Desk Reference (PDR) for Herbal Medicines, and Stefan Spiess, RPh,
President of Grünwalder GmbH
Anton Biber, PhD, and Friedrich Lang, PhD, experts
in the bioavailability of herbal medicine at Dr. Willmar Schwabe
GmbH & Co., Germany
Anthony Almada, MSc, founder and Chief Scientific
Officer of IMAGINutrition, Inc.
Joseph M. Betz, PhD, Director of the Dietary Supplements
Methods and Reference Materials Program at the NIH Office of Dietary
Supplements
Ezra Bejar, PhD, president of Plant Bioassay
Uwe Koetter, PhD, Director of New OTC and Dietary
Supplement Product Development at GlaxoSmithKline
Srini Srinivasan, PhD, Vice President of the Dietary
Supplement Verification Program of the United States Pharmacopeia
(USP)
Roy Upton, Executive Director of the American
Herbal Pharmacopoeia.
The reviewers of the clinical trials included: Karriem
Ali, MD; Richard Aranda, MD; Elliot Fagelman, MD; Mary Hardy, MD;
David Heber, MD, PhD, FACP, FACN; John
Trimmer Hicks, MD, FACP, FACR; Hannah Kim, MD; Franklin C. Lowe, MD, MPH; Richard
D. O’Connor, MD; Barry S. Oken, M.D; Lynn Shinto, ND; and Keith Wesnes,
PhD.
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