Safety of complementary medicines should be monitored
- 2 September 1995
- Vol. 311 (7005) , 633
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.311.7005.633b
Abstract
EDITOR,--As Western medicine accepts the role of complementary treatments, should not these alternatives be expected to conform to the stringent safety standards expected of orthodox drugs? We ask this in the light of three cases illustrating the toxic effects of Chinese herbal remedies. Firstly, Kane et al recently reported two cases of hepatotoxicity associated with the use of herbal and plant extract remedies.1 Secondly, we wish to report a …Keywords
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