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Revisiting the ancient concept of botanical therapeutics
Barbara M Schmidt1, David M Ribnicky, Peter E Lipsky
1Rutgers University, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Biotech Center, 59 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA.
Abstract:
Mixtures of interacting compounds produced by plants may provide important combination therapies that simultaneously affect multiple pharmacological targets and provide clinical efficacy beyond the reach of single compound-based drugs. Developing innovative scientific methods for discovery, validation, characterization and standardization of these multicomponent botanical therapeutics is essential to their acceptance into mainstream medicine.
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