Some patients and doctors swear by the healing power of herbs and other plants, but their chemical complexity makes them notoriously difficult to study.
Some headway is being made, however, as WSJ’s In The Lab column reports. New research suggests a four-herb combination long used in traditional Chinese medicine helps curb some side effects of chemotherapy.
Another example of an herbal treatment breaking into the halls of Western medicine is that of ingenol mebutate….
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