{"title":"Herbs: where's the harm?","authors":"Jenny Abrahaam","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The increased use of complementary and alternative medicine within our society requires us as professionals to educate our patients and ourselves as to the potential risks of taking herbs and vitamins. Herbs may be natural, but natural does not always equate to safe, and so this article provides a review of the literature and potential risks that herbs pose to surgery. Therefore we should encourage patients and health professionals alike to consider herbs as natural drugs and treat accordingly.</p>","PeriodicalId":72468,"journal":{"name":"British journal of perioperative nursing : the journal of the National Association of Theatre Nurses","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2004-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"British journal of perioperative nursing : the journal of the National Association of Theatre Nurses","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The increased use of complementary and alternative medicine within our society requires us as professionals to educate our patients and ourselves as to the potential risks of taking herbs and vitamins. Herbs may be natural, but natural does not always equate to safe, and so this article provides a review of the literature and potential risks that herbs pose to surgery. Therefore we should encourage patients and health professionals alike to consider herbs as natural drugs and treat accordingly.
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