[MPWG] herbal remedies associated with heart drugs

[Andrea Schwarzbach]

Hi!
The CNN report mentioned below is summarizing  a recently published paper [Tachjian A, Maria V, Jahangir A. Use of herbal products and potential interactions in patients with cardiovascular diseases. J Amer Coll Cardiol. 2010;55(6). [DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2009.07.074] that has major flaws and is obviously written by someone who is a specialist in cardiology but certainly has no clue about botany or medicinal plants.

You might be interested in a press release by the American Botanical Council regarding the original paper pointing out some of the many mistakes.
http://cms.herbalgram.org/press/2010/Response_CardiologyArticle.html

Best wishes,

Dr. Andrea Schwarzbach
Associate Professor
University of Texas-Brownsville
Department of Biological Sciences
80 Fort Brown
Brownsville, TX 78520


On 2/2/10 11:33 AM, "Emanuela Appetiti" <ceo at medicaltraditions.org> wrote:

HI!

Thought you might be interested in this article about some herbal remedies affecting the activity of heart drugs, appeared today in CNN health:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/01/moh.healthmag.remedies.avoid/

Best,

Emanuela Appetiti

<http://medicaltraditions.org/>

ceo at medicaltraditions.org <mailto:info at medicaltraditions.org>

+1 202 633 0967

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