The uses and misuses of orchids in medicine
Open Access
- 8 July 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in QJM: An International Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 98 (9), 625-631
- https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hci094
Abstract
We are now aware that medicines need to be tested before being consumed by human beings. Today, this takes the form of experimentation to assess toxicity, and subsequent randomized control trials to assess both efficacy and adverse effects. However, orchid products, the tubers, leaves or flowers, were introduced into medicine with no such testing, and ultimately their use has declined, not through being proven ineffective, but more through lack of evidence and changes in fashion.Keywords
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