What Students Need To Know About Pharmacovigilance & Safety Monitoring for Herbal Medicinal Product.

Herbal medicines include herbs, herbal materials, herbal preparations and finished herbal products. In some countries herbal medicines may contain, by tradition, natural organic or inorganic active ingredients that are not of plant origin ( and mineral materials). Herbal formulations being widely accepted therapeutic agents as antidiabetics, antiarthritics, hepatoprotectives, cough remedies, memory enhancers, and adaptogens. The commonest myth regarding herbal medicines is that these medicines Pharmacovigilance is the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects of drugs or any other possible drug-related problems. Recently, its concerns have been widened to include: ♦ herbals ♦ traditional and complementary medicines ♦ blood products ♦ biologicals ♦ medical devices ♦ vaccines. In order to provide consistency in the naming of herbs in adverse reaction (AR) reports