Many research and evidence-based studies are being conducted to test the efficacy and safety of herbal and other forms of traditional ayurvedic and homeopathic remedies. Interestingly, those studies are about to shatter our long borne belief of naturopathy to be safe and devoid of any side effect and cross-reactivity Research and evidence cannot certify herbs to be safe The lack of information about the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamics data, lack of vigilance on its pharmacological adverse effect regarding the herbal medicine, make them more dangerous to consume.
A recent research published in BMC Medicine journal showed a group of researcher from Canada and India assessed the standard of 44 herbal drug samples from Canada by DNA barcoding technique. DNA barcoding is a technique that assesses if the formulation contains only the DNAs from the claimed ingredient (authentic product)…
