Adverse drug reactions to Indian traditional remedies

Unique case of drug induced liver injury

“…Various drugs cause liver injury by many different mechanisms like Ayurvedic, 3 Homeopathic, 4 and Allopathic, 5 but since most modern medicine is evidence and research-based, there is enough knowledge of the mechanism of action, effects, side effects, and dosing of the drugs (which is lacking in the conventional medicine), which reduces the disastrous effects to major extent which is not the case with other conventional and alternative medicines (CAM). 6…”

Rapid Limit Tests for Metal Impurities in Pharmaceutical Materials by X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy Using Wavelet Transform Filtering

“…Data on metal impurities in pharmaceutical products is sparse, and therefore the extent of metal contamination in pharmaceuticals is poorly documented. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] Margui, et al 22 have recently reported a method for the determination of palladium catalyst residue in pharmaceutical materials using a lab-based high-energy polarized beam X-ray fluorescence (XRF) instrument, and they achieved a detection limit of 0.11 μg/g (ppm). XRF spectroscopy is also well suited to field analysis of elemental impurities in pharmaceutical products because it is rapid, sensitive, and selective.…”

“…Cadmium, arsenic, lead, and mercury, which are distributed in the environment, as well as common catalytic metals such as platinum and palladium, are among the elements of concern. Data on metal impurities in pharmaceutical products is sparse, and therefore the extent of metal contamination in pharmaceuticals is poorly documented. − …”