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Increasingly patients are seeking integration between Western and Oriental Medicine. This course enables you to recognize and prevent potential herb-drug interactions. In this class, Dr. John Chen shares with you the most commonly seen herb-drug interactions and drug-herb interactions so that when you are prescribing herbal formulas to patients, you are aware of possible interactions with the medications they are taking. In addition, he also discusses the safe and defense practice guidelines to minimize side-effects, adverse reactions, and herb-drug interactions.
Upon completion of this course, practitioners will:
• Understand the fundamental concepts of herb-drug interactions
• Recognize herbs with risks of herb-herb and herb-drug interactions
• Recognize drugs with risks of drug-herb interactions
• Recognize patients with risks of disease-herb interactions
• Safe and defense practice guidelines to minimize side-effects, adverse reactions and herb-drug interactions
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