Herbs and preggers

[Guest guest]

A colleague just informed me that huang qin as well as tianhuafen both

are C.I. in preggers due to them crossing the blood brain barrier and

having the potential of causing brain damage (in the last

trimester)... If this is true, pattern or not, I would avoid this, and

I think there is much more info out there, like this. This just goes

to show that modern pharmacological understanding of herbs is

essential to practice medicine. To ignore such data b/c it is not

classically written would be foolish. Although tianhuafen is already

CI , this is for a different reason, hence it does wind up in pregger

Rxs (from China). I also think it is extremely risky when data such

as this is put forth to still use a given herb b/c it is in some

classical formula (i.e. for restless fetus). Until a study proves

that the active ingredient(s) that cause the brain damage are

dissolved in conjunction with these other herbs than new evidence must

prevail… Pattern identification or classical information is not fool

proof – and is just the beginning.

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Jason,

 

Where does your colleague have this information from? Ancetodal, based

on research? What is the mechanism? Just the statement that Huang Qin is

C.I. in pregnancy is a bit little and certainly not convincing. At least

some data has to go along with it (and more than that it crosses the

blood brain barrier).

 

Please let me know if you can find out. I am very interested in such

info.

 

Simon Becker

 

 

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Montag, 27. Oktober 2003 16:02

 

Herbs and preggers

 

 

A colleague just informed me that huang qin as well as tianhuafen both

are C.I. in preggers due to them crossing the blood brain barrier and

having the potential of causing brain damage (in the last

trimester)... If this is true, pattern or not, I would avoid this, and

I think there is much more info out there, like this. This just goes

to show that modern pharmacological understanding of herbs is

essential to practice medicine. To ignore such data b/c it is not

classically written would be foolish. Although tianhuafen is already

CI , this is for a different reason, hence it does wind up in pregger

Rxs (from China). I also think it is extremely risky when data such

as this is put forth to still use a given herb b/c it is in some

classical formula (i.e. for restless fetus). Until a study proves

that the active ingredient(s) that cause the brain damage are

dissolved in conjunction with these other herbs than new evidence must

prevail… Pattern identification or classical information is not fool

proof – and is just the beginning.

 

 

 

 

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