{"id":4024,"date":"2019-03-20T16:28:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herbal-ahp.org\/?page_id=4024"},"modified":"2020-03-23T06:26:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T14:26:45","slug":"online-ordering-blue-cohosh-rhizome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/herbal-ahp.org\/online-ordering-blue-cohosh-rhizome\/","title":{"rendered":"AHP Monographs &#8211; Blue Cohosh Rhizome and Root"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<div class=\"center\"><div  class=\"swmsc_image_lightbox  image_center\" style=\"border: 1px solid #aaaaaa;\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swmsc_image_lightbox_img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/herbal-ahp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ahp-blue-cohosh-cover-425w.jpg\" class=\"\" style=\"border-radius:0;\" \/><div class=\"swmsc_img_overlay\" style=\"border-radius:0;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/herbal-ahp.com\/collections\/frontpage\/products\/blue-cohosh-root-rhizome\" title=\"\" target=\"_self\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div  class=\"clear swmsc_gap\" style=\"margin:24px 0 0 0;\"><\/div><div  class=\"swmsc_button_div center swmsc_btn_715470207\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/herbal-ahp.com\/collections\/frontpage\/products\/blue-cohosh-root-rhizome\" data-class=\"swmsc_btn_715470207\" data-color=\"#ffffff\" data-bg-color=\"#e28000\" data-border-color=\"\" data-h-color=\"#ffffff\" data-h-bg-color=\"#ffbb00\" data-h-border-color=\"\"  class=\"swmsc_button_sc\" style=\"font-size:20px; border-width:0px; border-radius:48px; padding:10px 30px; line-height:48px;\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">PURCHASE<\/a><\/div><div  class=\"clear swmsc_gap\" style=\"margin:24px 0 0 0;\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;]<div  class=\"swmsc_tabs tabs_horizontal tab_align_left content_with_border \" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"tab-nav tab-clearfix\"><li><a href=\"#swmsc-tab-1\"><i class=\"fa fa-- Select Icon -\"><\/i>Description<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#swmsc-tab-2\"><i class=\"fa fa-- Select Icon -\"><\/i>Table of Contents<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"swmsc-tab-1\" class=\"swmsc_tab\">\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Blue Cohosh Rhizome and Root<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Historically, blue cohosh (<em>Caulophyllum thalictroides<\/em>, <em>C. giganteum<\/em>) has been one of the most widely used and highly relied-upon botanicals for augmenting labor, having been used to facilitate normal and efficient labor for more than 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional labor induction is one of the primary reasons why America has the worst infant mortality statistics of any similarly developed nation. Concerns based on case reports and mechanistic data about its potential fetal toxicity have caused blue cohosh to fall into disuse, thus potentially eliminating a once very important herb from the materia medica.<\/p>\n<p>The AHP monograph was co-authored and edited by herbalist, midwife, physician, and former AHP Medical Director Aviva Romm, and was based on her Yale doctoral thesis, as well as her original work conducted with midwives. In addition to Dr. Romm\u2019s blue cohosh review being vetted by the Yale doctoral review board, the monograph was subjected to review by traditional herbalists, midwives, naturopathic physicians, medical obstetrics experts, and integrative medical doctors.<\/p>\n<p>AHP embarked on the development of the blue cohosh monograph initially because of the importance of the botanical in the birthing and naturopathic medical communities, and subsequently because of the concern for its potential toxicity. AHP worked hard to strike a balance between the potential benefit of the herb juxtaposed against any potential risk, with the goal of fully informing the health care community and consumers about the strength of the evidence on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>During the development of the monograph, an interesting finding was the recognition of a second North American <em>Caulophyllum<\/em> species, <em>C. giganteum<\/em>, proposed in 1981 and accepted in the Flora of North America in 1995. <em>C. giganteum<\/em> and <em>C. thalictroides<\/em> have been used interchangeably throughout the history of the use of the herb, with herbalists unaware that they were two separate species. There are morphological differences and similarities between the two, though the chemistry appears to be identical.<\/p>\n<p>Although <em>C. giganteum<\/em> is not listed in American Herbal Products Association\u2019s (AHPA) regulatorily accepted text on botanical nomenclature, Herbs of Commerce, the recognition of the species is important from the perspective of GMP compliance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/div><div id=\"swmsc-tab-2\" class=\"swmsc_tab\">\n<style>\n       .errordiv { padding:10px; margin:10px; border: 1px solid #555555;color: #000000;background-color: #f8f8f8; width:500px; }#advanced_iframe {visibility:visible;opacity:1;vertical-align:top;}.ai-info-bottom-iframe { position: fixed; z-index: 10000; bottom:0; left: 0; margin: 0px; text-align: center; width: 100%; background-color: #ff9999; padding-left: 5px;padding-bottom: 5px; border-top: 1px solid #aaa } a.ai-bold {font-weight: bold;}#ai-layer-div-advanced_iframe p {height:100%;margin:0;padding:0}<\/style><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var ai_iframe_width_advanced_iframe = 0;var ai_iframe_height_advanced_iframe = 0;var aiOnloadScrollTop=\"iframe\";var aiExtraSpace=100;var aiShowDebug=false;\n\t\tif (typeof aiReadyCallbacks === 'undefined') {\n\t\t\tvar aiReadyCallbacks = [];\n\t\t} else if (!(aiReadyCallbacks instanceof Array)) {\n\t\t\tvar aiReadyCallbacks = [];\n\t\t}    function aiShowIframeId(id_iframe) { jQuery(\"#\"+id_iframe).css(\"visibility\", \"visible\");    }    function aiResizeIframeHeight(height) { aiResizeIframeHeight(height,advanced_iframe); }    function aiResizeIframeHeightId(height,width,id) {aiResizeIframeHeightById(id,height);}<\/script><iframe id=\"advanced_iframe\"  name=\"advanced_iframe\"  src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/gview?url=http:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/ahpaccess01\/monograph-tocs\/ahp-blue-cohosh-toc.pdf&#038;embedded=true\"  width=\"100%\"  height=\"600\"  scrolling=\"auto\"  frameborder=\"0\"  border=\"0\"  allowtransparency=\"true\"  loading=\"lazy\"  style=\";width:100%;height:600px;\"  allowfullscreen  onload='aiResizeIframe(this, &quot;true&quot;,&quot;1&quot;);;aiScrollToTop(&quot;advanced_iframe&quot;,&quot;iframe&quot;)' ><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var ifrm_advanced_iframe = document.getElementById(\"advanced_iframe\");var hiddenTabsDoneadvanced_iframe = false;\nfunction resizeCallbackadvanced_iframe() {}<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t   \t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<div  class=\"clear swmsc_gap\" style=\"margin:50px 0 0 0;\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4024","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbal-ahp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbal-ahp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbal-ahp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbal-ahp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbal-ahp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/herbal-ahp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4444,"href":"https:\/\/herbal-ahp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4024\/revisions\/4444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbal-ahp.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}