SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—The American Herbal Pharmacopoeia® (AHP), a California-based non-profit research organization, released its quality control standards and therapeutic compendium for the popular botanical dietary supplement Echinacea angustifolia Root (Echinacea angustifolia DC.) Each monograph establishes national standards for assuring authenticity, purity and quality control of the monographed botanical. Accompanying the standards is the AHP Therapeutic Compendium ,which provides a complete and critical review of the pharmacological and safety data currently available, including information on pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, actions, medical indications, historical and modern and traditional use, structure and function claims, dosages, interactions, side effects, contraindications, toxicology, and more.
Echinacea angustifolia and the other Echinacea monographs can be ordered online.
