Hepatic impairment resulting from the use of conventional drugs is widely acknowledged, but there is less awareness of the potential hepatotoxicity of alternative medicines such as herbal preparations [1]. The increasing attraction for herbals medicines is partly explained by the return to natural products occurring along with the ecological movement in industrialized countries [1]. It is also related to the limited efficacy or the important side effects of treatments of various chronic diseases [1–5].
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