Whet are the effects of toxic plants on the immune system?

11 November 2011 1 6K Report

I dont know if researchs on such topic exist, toxic means dont use the plants, but when we look from homoepathic point of view, toxicity may be benificial for health.

Do you have any idea about this?

Mounia Oudghiri

Toxicity depended of doses and time of use. Here is an article on the subject.

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences Vol. 3(8) pp. 214-222, August 2011

Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/JTEHS

Full Length Research Paper

Immunostimulatory potential of Aristolochia longa L. induced toxicity on liver, intestine and kidney in mice

Ghita BENZAKOUR1, Nouhad BENKIRANE2, Mariam AMRANI3 and Mounia OUDGHIRI1,4*

1Laboratoire de Physiologie et Génétique Moléculaire, Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences Aïn Chock,

Université Hassan II, B.P 5366 Maarif, Casablanca, Maroc, Marocco.

2Laboratoire d’anatomie pathologique du centre, 52, Boulevard Zerktouni, Espace Erreda, Casablanca, Maroc, Marocco.

3Laboratoire d’anatomie pathologique, Institut National d’Oncologie, Hôpital Moulay Abdallah, Rabat, Maroc, Marocco.

4Immunity and interaction cellular Unit, Laboratory of Physiology and Molecular Genetics, Department of Biology,

Faculty of Sciences Aïn Chock, University Hassan II, B.P 5366 Maarif, Casablanca, Morocco.

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