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This is a partial list of herbs and herbal treatments with known or suspected adverse effects, either alone or in interaction with other herbs or drugs.Non-inclusion of an herb in this list does not imply that it is free of adverse effects.
Moxibustion (Chinese: 灸; pinyin: jiǔ) is a traditional Chinese medicine therapy which consists of burning dried mugwort on particular points on the body. It plays an important role in the traditional medical systems of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Mongolia.
In medicine, a side effect is an effect of the use of a medicinal drug or other treatment, usually adverse but sometimes beneficial, that is unintended. Herbal and traditional medicines also have side effects.
Medicinal plants are used with the intention of maintaining health, to be administered for a specific condition, or both, whether in modern medicine or in traditional medicine. [4] [48] The Food and Agriculture Organization estimated in 2002 that over 50,000 medicinal plants are used across the world. [49]
Herbal medicine (also called herbalism, phytomedicine or phytotherapy) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine. [1]
A China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine study published in a 1994 article, Pharmacological studies of nin jion pei pa koa, states that the syrup had significant cough-relieving and sputum-removing effects. In four acute or sub-acute inflammatory models, the anti-inflammatory effect was marked.
Clays are classified as excipients and their main side-effects are that of neutral excipients, which is to impair and slow down absorption of antibiotics, hormones and heart medication amongst others by coating the digestive tract [27] and this slowed down absorption can lead to increased toxicity of some medication (e.g. citrate salts) which ...
Pien Tze Huang (片仔癀; Piànzǎihuáng) is a traditional Chinese herbal formula first documented during the Ming Dynasty and historically used to combat inflammation. In recent years it has been tested on animals for its benefits against various diseases such as multiple sclerosis, cerebral ischemia, carbon-induced liver damage, and cancer.