Review articleHerbal medicine, Chaplin, and “The Kid”
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At variance with other largely safe complementary alternative medicines such as homeopathy and acupuncture, herbal remedies are real, albeit impure, drugs and therefore fully capable of producing undesirable effects if handled without sufficient attention.
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As opposed to a few good quality papers suggesting medical efficacy, there are numerous studies showing that herbal medicines may be directly toxic or have untoward interactions with prescribed drugs.
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This disproportion makes studies in the
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