Over the past decade, herbal medicine has become a topic of increasing global importance, with both medical and economic implications. In developing countries, as much as 80% of the indigenous populations depends on traditional systems of medicine and medicinal plants as their primary source of healthcare. Within the European Community, herbal medicines represent an important share of the pharm...

This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study among Malay women admitted in the antenatal and postnatal ward to determine the prevalence and use of herbal medicines during pregnancy and elemental analysis in the most popular herbs. A total of 460 women were surveyed. Herbal medicine use during pregnancy was 34.3%, while 73% utilized herbal medicines during labor, because of a belief that it may ...

background & aim: herbal medicine usage is prevalent among world people from a long time ago and, it has been five times from 90th to 97th in the usa. according to increasing usage of herbal drugs and investigating the knowledge, beliefs and function of patients to herbal drugs, this research was done. experimental: it is a descriptive, cross sectional study which carried on 30 patients who...

The use of alternative therapies including Herbal medicines is rapidly escalating in both the developed as well as in the developing countries. It is generally believed that ‘natural’ herbal medicines are better and safer than conventional medicine; herbal medicines are in fact associated with serious toxic effects. The current study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Panax Gi...

Pancreatic cancer is a type of common malignant tumors with high occurrence in the world. Most patients presented in clinic had pancreatic cancer at advanced stages. Furthermore, chemotherapy or radiotherapy had very limited success in treating pancreatic cancer. Complementary and alternative medicines, such as natural products/herbal medicines, represent exciting adjunctive therapies. In this ...

Herbal medicine (phytomedicine) uses remedies possessing significant pharmacological activity and, consequently, potential adverse effects and drug interactions. The explosion in sales of herbal therapies has brought many products to the marketplace that do not conform to the standards of safety and efficacy that physicians and patients expect. Unfortunately, few surgeons question patients rega...

To the Editor Pregnant women using herbs is common in Taiwan and mainland China, but relatively little is known about the safety of taking herbal medicines during pregnancy. Our previous study showed a possible link between the use of specific herbal medicines during the first trimester of pregnancy and an increased risk of specific congenital malformations. Thus, this analysis was conducted to...

To date, a number of significant herbal drug interactions have their origins in the alteration of cytochrome P450 (CYP) activity by various phytochemicals. Among the most noteworthy are those involving St. John's wort and drugs metabolized by human CYP3A4 enzyme. This review article is the continued work from our previous article (Part 1) published in this journal (Wanwimolruk and Prachayasitti...