Acute Hepatitis after Ingestion of a Preparation of Chinese Skullcap and Black Catechu for Joint Pain

Many herbal preparations are routinely used and have been occasionally associated with a wide range of side effects, from mild to severe. Chinese skullcap and black catechu are herbal medications commonly used for their hepatoprotective and other properties. We report a case of acute toxic hepatitis...

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Autores principales: Papafragkakis, Charilaos, Ona, Mel A., Reddy, Madhavi, Anand, Sury
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4842037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27144042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4356749
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author Papafragkakis, Charilaos
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description Many herbal preparations are routinely used and have been occasionally associated with a wide range of side effects, from mild to severe. Chinese skullcap and black catechu are herbal medications commonly used for their hepatoprotective and other properties. We report a case of acute toxic hepatitis associated with ingestion of Chinese skullcap and black catechu in one preparation for the alleviation of joint pain.
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spelling pubmed-48420372016-05-03 Acute Hepatitis after Ingestion of a Preparation of Chinese Skullcap and Black Catechu for Joint Pain Papafragkakis, Charilaos Ona, Mel A. Reddy, Madhavi Anand, Sury Case Reports Hepatol Case Report Many herbal preparations are routinely used and have been occasionally associated with a wide range of side effects, from mild to severe. Chinese skullcap and black catechu are herbal medications commonly used for their hepatoprotective and other properties. We report a case of acute toxic hepatitis associated with ingestion of Chinese skullcap and black catechu in one preparation for the alleviation of joint pain. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4842037/ /pubmed/27144042 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4356749 Text en Copyright © 2016 Charilaos Papafragkakis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Acute Hepatitis after Ingestion of a Preparation of Chinese Skullcap and Black Catechu for Joint Pain
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4842037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27144042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4356749
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