Traditional Chinese medicines such as heche dazao capsules should not be prescribed for patients with sex-hormone-dependent tumors.

摘要

Recently, Woolf and Gardiner, in their article "Use of Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Children, discussed the wide use of complementary and alternative medicines in children. In fact, more and more harmful outcomes induced by traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) are being reported and confirmed, such as aristolochic acid nephropathy induced by ingesting aristolochiae fangchi root tea, which is often misused as a weight-loss agent.