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A brief study of toxic effects of some medicinal herbs on kidney
Increased use of complementary and alternative herbal medicines in the treatment of various diseases.Some herbal therapies may be causes of potential toxicity that may be renal toxicity caused by the ingestion of herbs. The goal of this study is the toxic and beneficial effects of medicinal herbs on...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3544088/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326775 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9175.100144 |
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description | Increased use of complementary and alternative herbal medicines in the treatment of various diseases.Some herbal therapies may be causes of potential toxicity that may be renal toxicity caused by the ingestion of herbs. The goal of this study is the toxic and beneficial effects of medicinal herbs on renal health by which evidence for benefit or toxicity has been found. Included are nephrotoxicity from aristolochic acid and other components within herbs, herb-drug interactions, heavy metal toxicity in herbs and adulterants during careless preparation of herbal medicine, resulting in adverse renal effects and renal toxicity from contaminants within the extracts. The review aims to provide knowledge and guide to encourage future toxicity studies on the kidney by medicinal herbs. |
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spelling | pubmed-35440882013-01-16 A brief study of toxic effects of some medicinal herbs on kidney Asif, Mohammad Adv Biomed Res Review Article Increased use of complementary and alternative herbal medicines in the treatment of various diseases.Some herbal therapies may be causes of potential toxicity that may be renal toxicity caused by the ingestion of herbs. The goal of this study is the toxic and beneficial effects of medicinal herbs on renal health by which evidence for benefit or toxicity has been found. Included are nephrotoxicity from aristolochic acid and other components within herbs, herb-drug interactions, heavy metal toxicity in herbs and adulterants during careless preparation of herbal medicine, resulting in adverse renal effects and renal toxicity from contaminants within the extracts. The review aims to provide knowledge and guide to encourage future toxicity studies on the kidney by medicinal herbs. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3544088/ /pubmed/23326775 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9175.100144 Text en Copyright: © 2012 Asif http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Asif, Mohammad A brief study of toxic effects of some medicinal herbs on kidney |
title | A brief study of toxic effects of some medicinal herbs on kidney |
title_full | A brief study of toxic effects of some medicinal herbs on kidney |
title_fullStr | A brief study of toxic effects of some medicinal herbs on kidney |
title_full_unstemmed | A brief study of toxic effects of some medicinal herbs on kidney |
title_short | A brief study of toxic effects of some medicinal herbs on kidney |
title_sort | brief study of toxic effects of some medicinal herbs on kidney |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3544088/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23326775 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2277-9175.100144 |
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