2.3 herb-drug interaction assessment
For checking herb-drug interactions, we used a drug interaction checker
supported by natural medicine collaboration (URL:
https://naturalmedicines.therapeuticresearch.com/). The scientific
names of herbal medicines and the generic name of chemotherapeutic
agents as pair of herb-drug check together. In this part, the scientific
name of herbal medicines was determined and approved by two herbalists.
According to the results, interactions were stratified in three levels:
minor, moderate and major based on the evidence (anecdotal evidence,
theoretically based on pharmacology, vitro studies, randomized and
non-randomized clinical trials).