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To the Editor.
“Do some parents of your patients know more about medicinal herbs than you do?” With this question, Dr Kathi Kemper introduces her review of some of the popular herbs currently flying off the shelves at pharmacies or health food stores.1 At least several parental inquiries each day relate to alternative or complementary care, particularly for chronic medical conditions. Frustration regarding the conventional medical profession's inability to adequately treat or prevent recurrent or chronic disease has been heightened by media hype and a perceived impersonal atmosphere engendered by managed care.2 Many “allopathic” physicians, feeling professionally threatened, are scrambling to become more acquainted with various modes of alternative or complementary care. Herbal therapies would seem the likeliest to be incorporated because much of conventional medicine's pharmacopeia stems in one way or other from herbal sources and the study of herbs is consistent with classic pharmacology teaching. Potential dangers, however, come with quick reference guides and “how-to” books and magazines.
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