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Is it really the “dark side” of herbal medicine?

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  1. Hongqiao International Institute of Medicine, Shanghai Tong Ren Hospital and Faculty of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200025, China

    Yang Luan

  2. National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, 100050, China

    Shuangcheng Ma

  3. Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ministry of Health, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200127, China

    Yimin Mao

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Luan, Y., Ma, S. & Mao, Y. Is it really the “dark side” of herbal medicine?. Sci. China Life Sci. 61, 1118–1119 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-018-9351-0

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