I want to give you a sense of where this could lead through some lovely work that’s now being finished up and not yet published by Steve Kliewer of Glaxo-Smith-Kline in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.  He reasons that interactions between herbs and drugs, like interactions we’re learning between drugs and drugs, relate to the fact that these drugs interact with a basic chemoprevention system that we, as animals, have evolved over millions of years to have to protect us from things that we eat in the environment that may be dangerous to us.

植物/药物的相互作用

目标               获得更多有关植物以及它们与其它药物之间相互作用的知识

目前用途        大约有18%的处方药服用者同样也服用草药、高剂量的维生素产品或者两者同时用（1998）

设计               预临床试验、第Ⅰ、Ⅱ阶段