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. 1998 Mar 10;158(5):637–639.

Herbal medicine takes root in Germany

P Harrison
PMCID: PMC1229014  PMID: 9526483

Abstract

The sale of Herbal Medicine is a growth industry in Germany, where physicians routinely prescribe these products and annual sales have surpassed $ 2 billion. Pam Harrison says the rising popularity has been driven by German patients, who began demanding herbal alternatives to synthetic drugs. Medical schools responded by reintroducing lessons on a topic that had been phased out of the medical curriculum.

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