《植物療法研究》是一份雙月刊和兩期的國際期刊，內容包括生物化學和分子藥理學、毒理學、病理學以及草藥和天然產物在人類和動物醫學上的臨床應用。還發表了關于草藥或其產品的化學和植物學鑒定的論文，這些信息有助于目前使用的植物性藥物的總體安全。僅與天然產物的鑒定和結構闡明有關的論文和通信將只考慮那些直接有助于了解植物作為藥物的用途的工作。植物療法研究發表完整的原始研究論文，簡短的交流評論和藥用植物研究的信件。關于草藥和天然產品在人類和動物醫學上的應用的學術論文可能會從病例史到完整的臨床試驗各不相同。有關普通食品成分和標準化植物提取物(包括商業產品)的影響的論文，以及對分離的天然產品的力學研究，都受到歡迎。植物療法研究不發表純農業植物化學結構闡明和鑒定論文，除非與當前使用的植物藥物的藥理作用或總體安全性有關。有關藥理學和粗提取物篩選的論文往往涉及當地的藥用植物，對國際讀者的興趣有限。因此，請仔細考慮您的論文是否更適合發表在國家期刊上，然后再將其發送給植物療法研究。未經提煉的論文仍將被視為短通信，但前提是它們只有一頁的篇幅(相當于600字，包括適當的插圖)。較長的稿件將不經審查退回。

Phytotherapy Research is a bimonthly plus two additional issues international journal for the publication of original medical plant research including biochemistry and molecular pharmacology toxicology pathology and the clinical applications of herbs and natural products to both human and animal medicine. Papers are also published concerning chemical and botanical identification of herbs or their products where such information contributes to the overall safety of plant based medicines currently in use. Papers and communications concerned solely with the identification and structure elucidation of natural products will only be considered where the work contributes directly to the understanding of the use of the plant as a medicine. Phytotherapy Research publishes full-length original research papers short communications reviews and letters on medicinal plant research. Clincal papers on the applications of herbs and natural products to both human and animal medicine may vary from case histories to full clinical trials. Papers concerned with the effects of common food ingredients and standardised plant extracts including commercial products are welcome as are mechanistic studies on isolated natural products. Phytotherapy Research does not publish purely agricultural phytochemical structure elucidation and identification papers unless pertinent to the pharmacological effects or overall safety of plant based medicines currently in use. Papers dealing with the pharmacology and screening of crude extracts often deal with local medicinal plants and are of only limited interest to an international readership. Therefore please consider carefully whether your paper would be more appropriate to a national journal before sending it to Phytotherapy Research . Crude extract papers will still be considered for publication as short communications but only if they are a single published page in length (equivalent to 600 words to include due allowance for any illustrations). Longer manuscripts will be returned without being reviewed .