A risk of herbal medicine that has so far been neglected | Edzard Ernst

On this blog, I have repeatedly tried to alert consumers and patients to the risks of herbal medicine. The risks include:

• toxicity of one or more ingredients of the plant, 
• interactions with other medicines, 
• contamination with toxic non-herbal substances such as heavy metals, 
• adulteration with synthetic drugs such as steroids, 
• ineffectiveness in treating the target disease 
• reduction of adherence […]

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