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Do Ayurveda drugs induce liver injury?
Drugs fulfilling the criterion of a standard drug will always become panacea provided, if they are used properly. On the other hand, a poorly manufactured drug however used skillfully, will prove to be a poison. Texts of Ayurveda, do mention hazards of drugs, which are not properly manufactured or a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5871861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29601073 http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v10.i3.400 |
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author | Ruknuddin, Galib |
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description | Drugs fulfilling the criterion of a standard drug will always become panacea provided, if they are used properly. On the other hand, a poorly manufactured drug however used skillfully, will prove to be a poison. Texts of Ayurveda, do mention hazards of drugs, which are not properly manufactured or administered. Art of drug administration is unique in this ancient medical science that cautions towards concentrating on dose, indications, contra-indications, suitable vehicle, specific diet, certain restrictions etc., while administering medicines in suitable individuals. Though a huge amount of information is available and evidences are being generated on the usefulness of traditional practices in global healthcare; there is a need of generating awareness on Promoting rational use of traditional medicines in particular to Ayurvedic drugs. Conventional researchers wish to work on traditional formulations have to understand traditional principles and involve traditional physicians in their researches in the benefit of mankind. |
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spelling | pubmed-58718612018-03-29 Do Ayurveda drugs induce liver injury? Ruknuddin, Galib World J Hepatol Letters To The Editor Drugs fulfilling the criterion of a standard drug will always become panacea provided, if they are used properly. On the other hand, a poorly manufactured drug however used skillfully, will prove to be a poison. Texts of Ayurveda, do mention hazards of drugs, which are not properly manufactured or administered. Art of drug administration is unique in this ancient medical science that cautions towards concentrating on dose, indications, contra-indications, suitable vehicle, specific diet, certain restrictions etc., while administering medicines in suitable individuals. Though a huge amount of information is available and evidences are being generated on the usefulness of traditional practices in global healthcare; there is a need of generating awareness on Promoting rational use of traditional medicines in particular to Ayurvedic drugs. Conventional researchers wish to work on traditional formulations have to understand traditional principles and involve traditional physicians in their researches in the benefit of mankind. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2018-03-27 2018-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5871861/ /pubmed/29601073 http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v10.i3.400 Text en ©The Author(s) 2018. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. |
spellingShingle | Letters To The Editor Ruknuddin, Galib Do Ayurveda drugs induce liver injury? |
title | Do Ayurveda drugs induce liver injury? |
title_full | Do Ayurveda drugs induce liver injury? |
title_fullStr | Do Ayurveda drugs induce liver injury? |
title_full_unstemmed | Do Ayurveda drugs induce liver injury? |
title_short | Do Ayurveda drugs induce liver injury? |
title_sort | do ayurveda drugs induce liver injury? |
topic | Letters To The Editor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5871861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29601073 http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v10.i3.400 |
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