Cogent note on raised safety concern on concurrent uses of herbal formulations

Abstract

Herbal therapy is well known holistic therapeutic approach from ancient times to improve emotional, mental and spiritual integrality because not having considerable side effects or adverse effects upon consumption and administration. Although medicinal plants or herbal formulations are widely proposed and considered to be safe, however, they can be potentially be hepatotoxic if not processed properly for final formulation stage to be used for consumption. Hence, simultaneous use of herbs with therapeutic drugs is considered or accepted these days which lead to increases the clinical potential of herb-drug interactions to treat many fatal diseases like hepatitis, cancer and various neurological disorders etc. However, these random or self-guided use of herbal medicine and supplements can be risky because most of times, they are not subject to review by the FDA. Hence, we need healthy attempts to find out possible reasons for studying streamlined clinical toxicological interpretations and clinical pharmacological approaches of herbal products before considering them for their further use as complementary and alternative medicine combination therapies to treat any diseases. Keywords: Herbal products, Herbal medicines, Herbal remedies, Medicinal plants.