Title: Nature's pharmacy
Description: This program examines herbal medicines that originated in China thousands of years ago. It looks at how these herbs are located and produced. The potential dangers of using herbal medicine with conventional drugs is addressed. The question of determining the potency of the active ingredients in herbs and in an essentially unregulated industry is explored. Scientists at the NIH are visited whose research centers on these natural products.
Subjects: Herbs, Therapeutic use, Medicinal plants