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Terminalia may also be useful in treating hypercholesterolemia As a traditional medicine, many Ayurveda products have not been tested in rigorous scientific studies and clinical trials.

Alan Keith Tillotson (2001) in The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know About Chinese, Western, and Ayurvedic Herbal Treatments Crude aconite is an extremely lethal substance. However, the science of Ayurveda looks upon aconite as a therapeutic entity. Crude aconite is always processed i.e. it undergoes 'samskaras' before being utilised in the Ayurvedic formulations. This study was undertaken in mice, to ascertain whether 'processed' aconite is less toxic as compared to the crude or unprocessed one. It was seen that crude aconite was significantly toxic to mice (100% mortality at a dose of 2.6 mg/mouse) whereas the fully processed aconite was absolutely non-toxic (no mortality at a dose even 8 times as high as that of crude aconite). Further, all the steps in the processing were essential for complete detoxification. - Rigorous evidence that the metals may be rendered nontoxic is not available, and case reports describe adverse effects to these metals.

Bhushan etc. in Heavy metals and Ayurveda , Current Science, Vol. 88, No. 10, 25 May 2005. Indian Academy of Sciences.

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