A Woman's Heart: Botanical medicines for prevention and treatment
Tori Hudson, ND
Format: Video of Slides

This session will present select research in botanicals and their impact on prevention and treatment in cardiovascular disease in women. Research will focus on botanicals and their effect on lipids, blood pressure, cardiac muscle, vascular inflammation and oxidative damage and type 2 diabetes. Specifically the scientific evidence will highlight dyslipidemia, hypertension, congestive heart failure, peripheral vascular disease and T2diabetes. This lecture will offer the practitioner an understanding of the botanical research in these areas, but also clinically relevant and practical information for use in an every day women's health clinical practice. Examples of botanicals will include the following: green tea, hibiscus, garlic, gymnema, cinnamon, bitter melon, ginkgo, coleus, turmeric, ginger, red yeast rice, hawthorne, red clover, soy, olive leaf, dandelion leaf, Arjuna and more as the research and time allotted allows. The format will be to present the abstract of the research study, provide commentary, provide clinical dosing/guidelines and offer integrative medicine strategies and case scenarios.