Plants Against Fatigue

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Kurt Hostettmann

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To Recover Better After Exertion, Fight Exhaustion and Strengthen the Immune System

Fatigue: a universal ailment, and plants as natural allies.

Whether passing or chronic, fatigue affects all age groups and takes many forms. Many so-called adaptogenic plants bring relief in times of stress, overwork, anxiety and illnesses such as COVID. Others improve performance and help the body recover better after physical exertion. Many of them have been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine and Indian Ayurvedic medicine.

A scientific and practical approach: each plant species in this book comes with a botanical description, historical information, its chemical composition and its pharmacological mode of action. Practical advice explains how to make the most of these plants’ virtues: preparation, dosage, drug interactions and possible side effects.

With contributions by Dr Bernadette Biloa Messi.

Kurt Hostettmann

Kurt Hostettmann, PhD in Chemistry, is Honorary Professor at the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Nanjing, Shandong and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai. Specializing in medicinal plants and phytomedicines, he is internationally renowned. He received the Egon Stahl Gold Medal from the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research in September 2014 for his outstanding work in pharmacognosy and phytotherapy. He is the author of more than 500 publications and a dozen books, some of which have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Farsi, Spanish and Portuguese.

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