Impacts of heavy metals and medicinal crops on ecological systems, environmental pollution, cultivation, and production processes in China.
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
; 219: 112336, 2021 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
Heavy metals are widely distributed in the environment due to the natural processes and anthropogenic human activities. Their migration into no contaminated areas contributing towards pollution of the ecosystems e.g. soils, plants, water and air. It is recognized that heavy metals due to their toxicity, long persistence in nature can accumulate in the trophic chain and cause organism dysfunction. Although the popularity of herbal medicine is rapidly increasing all over the world heavy metal toxicity has a great impact and importance on herbal plants and consequently affects the quality of herbal raw materials, herbal extracts, the safety and marketability of drugs. Effective control of heavy metal content in herbal plants using in pharmaceutical and food industries has become indispensable. Therefore, this review describes various important factors such as ecological and environmental pollution, cultivation and harvest of herbal plants and manufacturing processes which effects on the quality of herbal plants and then on Chinese herbal medicines which influence human health. This review also proposes possible management strategies to recover environmental sustainability and medication safety. About 276 published studies (1988-2021) are reviewed in this paper.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Plantas Medicinales
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Contaminantes del Suelo
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Productos Agrícolas
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Metales Pesados
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf
Año:
2021
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
China