Drug-Herb Interactions among Thai Herbs and Anticancer Drugs: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: More than half of Thai patients with cancer take herbal preparations while receiving anticancer therapy. There is no systematic or scoping review on interactions between anticancer drugs and Thai herbs, although several research articles have that Thai herbs inhibit cytochrome P450 (CYP) or efflux transporter. Therefore, we gathered and integrated information related to the interactions between anticancer drugs and Thai herbs. Fifty-two anticancer drugs from the 2020 Thailand National List of Essential Medicines and 75 herbs from the 2020 Thai Herbal Pharmacopoeia were selected to determine potential anticancer drug-herb interactions. The pharmacological profiles of the selected anticancer drugs were reviewed and matched with the herbal pharmacological activities to determine possible inte

SUBMITTER: Jiso A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8880589 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature