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A survey of the response of Korean medicinal plants on drug metabolism

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Alcohol extracts of plants widely used in the traditional medicine have been tested to establish if they affect the metabolism of drugs in mice.

Fourteen of the plants tested exhibited prolonging and/or inhibitory effect on hexobarbital sleeping time. Some of them also showed increasing effect on strychnine mortality, whereasPiperis retrofracti Fructus reduced the toxicity of strychnine.

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    Won Sick Woo, Kuk Hyun Shin, In Chull Kim & Chung Kyu Lee

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Woo, W.S., Shin, K.H., Kim, I.C. et al. A survey of the response of Korean medicinal plants on drug metabolism. Arch. Pharm. Res. 1, 13–19 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02856300

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