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Marketed Herbal Drugs: How Adulteration Affects

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Although superficially similar, herbal medicine and conventional pharmacotherapy have three important differences:

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Shaheen, S., Ramzan, S., Khan, F., Ahmad, M. (2019). Marketed Herbal Drugs: How Adulteration Affects. In: Adulteration in Herbal Drugs: A Burning Issue. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28034-5_5

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