Monday 9 April 2012

Safety of Herbal Medicines

Medicines derived from nature or commonly known as herbal medicine getting a place in society. What is a herbal medicineHerbal medicine itself is a product derived from plants and used to improve health. Many herbal medicines have been used empirically (hereditary) as a drug in traditional medicine.The definition of POM body of traditional medicine itself is a substance or mixture of materials in the form of plant material, animal, mineral materials, supplies Sarian (galenik) or mixtures of these materials, which for generations has been used for treatment based on experience.So in traditional medicine may have ingredients or ingredients derived from plants, animals and minerals. For that the BPOM has issued a standard production of traditional medicine known as CPOTB (Traditional Ways of Good Manufacturing Practice).

1. Standardized herbal medicine 

Is a standardized herbal medicinal preparations of natural medicine that has proven safety and efficacy in preclinical trials and scientific with the raw material has been in standardization.


2. Phytopharmaca
Fitofarmaka an even higher standard of herbal medicine. Fitofarmaka itself is the dosage of natural medicine that has proven safety and efficacy in preclinical trials and scientific trials. This stage is usually a time-consuming and expensive because it involves a lot of people. Are herbal remedies safe and efficacious?Efficacy of herbal medicine alone and standardized herbal medicine especially fitofarmaka be proven through the results of research through clinical trials or preclinical trials. So we recommend the use of herbal remedies should be appropriate dosage has been recommended and specified by the manufacturer's instructions.That must be considered in using herbal medicineAlthough herbal medicines are safe to use, there are some things you should consider if you want taking the herbs, namely:

 
* Ensure that consumed herbal medicines have been registered in the BPOM so that security maintained.

 
* If you're in the treatment of certain medications, you should first consult a doctor if you want to use herbal medicine (especially herbal medicine that consists of several types of herbal ingredients) because it can interact with drugs that are being taken.

 
* The potential efficacy and safety or side effects that may be contained in the herbal ingredients.

 
* Whether or not the interaction with drugs that are currently being consumed.

2 comments:

  1. that is a good article. I am very2 interesting about herbal medicine. can you give me some example of herbal medicine for decrease the high pressure blood? and how to make it? thanks.

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  2. thanks mrs. biologi87,, about the article what u mean, yoy can read the article before "Lowering Cholesterol, is not Enough to Supplement". it is can also to make antihipertensy too

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