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Botanical Influences on Illness is a member of the 'SourceBooks of Clinical Research' series, and is thus a companion book to Nutritional Influences on Illness and Nutritional Influences on Mental Illness. The book abstracts and analyzes thousands of research studies to help the reader evaluate the current state of knowledge about each potential treatment in the field of herbal medicine. It includes a materia medica on 40 common phytomedicines and an annotated list of resources. More than twice the size of the first edition, the book reviews botanical treatments for 70 different illnesses.