The nurse makes a home visit to a 76-year-old male widower who is taking multiple medications. The patient states that he has been taking some herbal remedies. The nurse should include which of the following in the patient's teaching?
A) He should inform his physician and pharmacist about the herbal remedies.
B) He should stop taking the herbal remedies.
C) Herbal remedies are folk medicine, and they don't usually work.
D) Herbal remedies are natural products, so he can take as much as he wants.
A
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