Review
Aug 2026
Heavy metals and pesticides in medicinal plants: environmental sources, plant responses, and human health risk assessment.
This review traces how heavy metals including Pb, Cd, As, Hg, Cr and Ni along with pesticide residues enter medicinal plants, disrupt their physiology, impair secondary metabolite production and ultimately reach human consumers.
P. Shukla, P. Gupta, Arpit Singh et al.
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