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ReviewChinese journal of integrative medicine2015

Understanding interactions between Chinese medicines and pharmaceutical drugs in integrative healthcare.

Kelvin Chan

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Review in Chinese journal of integrative medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Safety evaluation of Bon-santé cleanser® polyherbal in male Wistar rats.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2016
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1 author.

Kelvin ChanThe National Institute of Complementary Medicine, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2751, Australia, Profkchan@gmail.com.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the 21st century, the public are more informed, mainly via the Internet, about health and medical products and have become more knowledgeable about matters relating to their health conditions and well-being in curing and preventing illnesses. They often self-medicate themselves with various health products and over-the-counter (OTC) medicines apart from prescribed pharmaceutical drugs (PD). Some of those non-prescribed products may have doubtful quality control and contain harmful additives or unchecked ingredients; thus their usefulness is in doubt. The increasing popularity world-wide of using Chinese medicines (CM) and related OTC functional products has raised concerns over their concomitant use with PD and the consequential adverse effects. In most cases the alleged causes of adverse effects are linked with herbal sources, although the authorised information on the interactions between CM-PD is not plentiful in the literature. There is an urgent need for such a data base. The future professionals in health and medical care should be knowledgeable or aware of what their patients have been taking or given. In actual practice the patients may receive both treatments intentionally or unintentionally, with or without the awareness of the practitioner. In these situations a reliable database for interactions between CM-PD will be extremely useful for consultation when treatment problems appear or during emergency situations. Their combining of medications may be involved with possible outcomes of adverse reactions or beneficial effects. Such a database will be welcomed by both practitioners of herbal medicines and orthodox medicine practitioners in the emerging trend of integrative medicine. The author has been involved in various research projects of basic and clinical aspects in mainly CM among other herbal and PD. Examples will be given largely on those related to these disciplines as illustrations in this overview.

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Delivery of Health CareDrug InteractionsIntegrative MedicineDrugs, Chinese HerbalHumansPharmaceutical PreparationsDrugs, Chinese HerbalPharmaceutical Preparations

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