Alternative medicine: herbal drugs and their critical appraisal--part II.

摘要: Among alternative therapeutic approaches that have shown global popularity during the past decades, herbal medicine stands out as a major concern in countries where allopathic prevails. The sales of products health care adjuvants these increased exponentially. Lack quality control, commercial profiteering and exploitation leading to adulterations, lack proper knowledge about herbs their contents may exhibit drug-drug interactions other adverse side-effects, inappropriate usage become cause for professions, particularly United States. This review provides an incisive description known chemical, pharmacological, clinical toxicological profiles four most widely used products.