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The official monograph series of the Australian Institute of Pharmacognosy

The Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia

Technical monographs on the medicinal plants used in Australian practice. Each entry covers the plant's names and source, its botany in the hand and under the microscope, its chemistry and marker compounds, TLC and HPLC fingerprints, tests for identity and purity, traditional and current use, the clinical research, safety and interactions, with every reference listed in full.

The official monograph series of the Australian Institute of Pharmacognosy

The monographs, typeset, read in the AIP Reader

Every monograph opens with a free preview: its opening pages, a handful of pages from inside it, and the whole safety section. AUD $20 opens one of them in full in the AIP Reader, with the microscopy, the chemistry, the TLC and HPLC fingerprints, the assay tables and the full reference list, set the way the Institute prints it.

The monograph stays on the Institute's disk. Each page is printed to your screen in your name, with a copy serial, for as long as you hold the licence - on any device you sign in on, one at a time.

Your copy is always the current one. When bench data lands in Cardwell and a monograph is revised, the Reader moves you onto the new version while you are reading it. There is nothing to download and nothing to keep up to date.

Browse A to Z How the licence works

Free previewThe opening, pages from inside, and the safety section in full
AUD $20One monograph, read in full in the AIP Reader
Always currentEvery revision reaches you on its own, mid-page
One screen at a timeRead it wherever you sign in. A Scholar membership opens them all

The monographs, A to Z

34 monographs on the shelf: 28 released and 6 in preparation. The series runs to the whole Australian materia medica, and each one opens here the day it is released.

A

Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Adhatodae folium Justicia adhatoda AIP-PH-JUSADH Adhatoda leaf Justicia adhatoda L. Acanthaceae In preparation
Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Agrimoniae herba Agrimonia eupatoria AIP-PH-AGREUP Agrimony herb Agrimonia eupatoria L. Rosaceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Albiziae lebbeck cortex Albizia lebbeck AIP-PH-ALBLEB Albizia bark Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth. Fabaceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Aloes folii succus siccatus Aloe ferox AIP-PH-ALOSPP Aloes resin Aloe ferox Mill.; Aloe vera (L.) Burm.f. Asphodelaceae Read the opening pages AIP-PH-ANDPAN Andrographis herb Andrographis paniculata (Burm.f.) Wall. ex Nees 57 pages · AIP Reader · Herb (dried aerial parts) AUD $20 See inside Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Terminaliae arjunae cortex Terminalia arjuna AIP-PH-TERARJ Arjuna bark Terminalia arjuna (Roxb. ex DC.) Wight & Arn. Combretaceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Arnicae flos Arnica montana AIP-PH-ARNMON Arnica Arnica montana L. Asteraceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Astragali mongholici radix Astragalus mongholicus AIP-PH-ASTMEM Astragalus root Astragalus mongholicus Bunge Fabaceae Read the opening pages

B

Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Bacopae monnieri herba Bacopa monnieri AIP-PH-BACMON Bacopa herb Bacopa monnieri (L.) Wettst. Plantaginaceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Scutellariae baicalensis radix Scutellaria baicalensis AIP-PH-SCUBAI Baical skullcap root Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi Lamiaceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Baptisiae tinctoriae radix Baptisia tinctoria AIP-PH-BAPTIN Baptisia root Baptisia tinctoria (L.) R.Br. Fabaceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Berberidis cortex Berberis vulgaris AIP-PH-BERVUL Barberry bark Berberis vulgaris L. Berberidaceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Uvae ursi folium Arctostaphylos uva-ursi AIP-PH-ARCUVA Bearberry leaf Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. Ericaceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Trillii erecti rhizoma Trillium erectum AIP-PH-TRIERE Beth root Trillium erectum L. Melanthiaceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Myrtilli fructus Vaccinium myrtillus AIP-PH-VACMYR Bilberry fruit Vaccinium myrtillus L. Ericaceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Momordicae charantiae fructus Momordica charantia AIP-PH-MOMCHA Bitter melon fruit Momordica charantia L. Cucurbitaceae Read the opening pages AIP-PH-ACTRAC Black cohosh root Actaea racemosa L. 38 pages · AIP Reader · Root (dried rhizome and root) AUD $20 See inside Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Juglandis nigrae pericarpium Juglans nigra AIP-PH-JUGNIG Black walnut hulls Juglans nigra L. Juglandaceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Fuci thallus Fucus vesiculosus AIP-PH-FUCVES Bladderwrack whole thallus Fucus vesiculosus L. Fucaceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Caulophylli rhizoma et radix Caulophyllum thalictroides AIP-PH-CAUTHA Blue cohosh root Caulophyllum thalictroides (L.) Michx. Berberidaceae Read the opening pages Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Iridis versicoloris rhizoma Iris versicolor AIP-PH-IRIVER Blue flag root Iris versicolor L. Iridaceae Read the opening pages AIP-PH-BOSSER Boswellia oleo-gum resin Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Colebr. 57 pages · AIP Reader · Oleo-gum resin (air-dried gum-resin exudate obtained by incision in the stem or branches) AUD $20 See inside
Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Barosmae folium Agathosma betulina AIP-PH-AGABET Buchu leaf Agathosma betulina (P.J.Bergius) Pillans Rutaceae In preparation
Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Lycopi herba Lycopus virginicus AIP-PH-LYCSPP Bugleweed herb Lycopus virginicus L.; Lycopus europaeus L. Lamiaceae Read the opening pages

E

AIP-PH-ECHANG Echinacea angustifolia root Echinacea angustifolia DC. 29 pages · AIP Reader · Root (dried underground parts) AUD $20 See inside AIP-PH-ECHPUR Echinacea purpurea root Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench 30 pages · AIP Reader · Root (dried rhizome and roots) AUD $20 See inside

G

AIP-PH-GINBIL Ginkgo leaf Ginkgo biloba L. 37 pages · AIP Reader · Leaf (dried) AUD $20 See inside AIP-PH-HYDCAN Golden seal Hydrastis canadensis L. 50 pages · AIP Reader · Root and rhizome (dried) AUD $20 See inside

K

AIP-PH-PIPMET Kava root Piper methysticum G.Forst. 162 pages · AIP Reader · Root (peeled rootstock and lateral roots, dried) AUD $20 See inside

L

AIP-PH-GLYGLA Licorice root Glycyrrhiza glabra L. 53 pages · AIP Reader · Root and stolons (dried, unpeeled or peeled, whole or cut) AUD $20 See inside

R

Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Rhodiolae roseae rhizoma et radix Rhodiola rosea AIP-PH-RHOROS Rhodiola root Rhodiola rosea L. Crassulaceae In preparation

S

Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Hyperici herba Hypericum perforatum AIP-PH-HYPPER St John's wort flowering herb top Hypericum perforatum L. Hypericaceae In preparation

T

Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia Curcumae longae rhizoma Curcuma longa AIP-PH-CURLON Turmeric rhizome Curcuma longa L. Zingiberaceae In preparation

W

Australian Herbal Pharmacopoeia withania-somnifera withania-somnifera In preparation

What $20 buys

The monograph

The whole monograph as the Institute typesets it, 25 to 60 pages depending on the plant: macroscopy and microscopy photographs, HPLC and TLC fingerprints, constituent structures, the assay and quality tables, the clinical evidence tables and every reference.

The licence

Personal, for life, read in the AIP Reader. Your name, your account and a copy serial sit under every page you are shown. No file is handed over and there is no print path: the printed edition is set and printed by the Institute and ordered separately.

Memberships

A Scholar membership opens every monograph in the Reader. Below Scholar the sample pages are what a reader gets. AUD $20 opens one title for good.

Revisions

Your copy is the current copy. The Reader opens whatever revision the monograph is published at, and if it is revised while you are reading it you are moved onto the new pages within twenty seconds.

One screen at a time

One licence reads on one screen. Open the same monograph on a second device and the first one closes mid-sentence, which is what keeps a licence a licence.

Every page you are shown carries your name and the copy serial, in ink you can see and in two marks you cannot. A photograph of the screen names the account that was reading it.

Your library

How the series is built. Monographs are added in alphabetical order, working through the herbs in everyday use by Australian practitioners. Each one is reviewed by the Institute's botanical, quality and medical staff before it is released, and the opening pages of every monograph are free to read.

Elsewhere on the site. Research articles and literature reviews are in the Journal. Short plain-English guides to the same plants are on the Blog.