Signals of Adverse Reactions to Herbal Medicines: Evidence and Document Analysis Based on a Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To date, signals of adverse reactions to herbal medicines have not been systematically reviewed, limiting pharmacovigilance of herbal medicines because of a lack of data.

Objectives

We sought to analyse the available evidence on signals involving herbal medicines and to determine to what extent they had been documented at the European Union (EU) level and in the USA.

Methods

We used the results of a published scoping review of interventional and non-interventional studies that reported signals of adverse reactions to drugs. We assigned Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification to all drugs, and identified herbal medicines when they fell under the  Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical V90. We ascertained the presence of the adverse reaction, or related adver

SUBMITTER: Sartori D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12605554 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature