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Pharmacovigilance for herbal medicines

Herbal medicine has been known to be effective in the treatment of various ailments since the beginning of human civilization. Ayurveda is a form of herbal therapy that originated in India. Plants, their parts, metabolites, and preparations are proven to have enormous therapeutic properties. The importance of herbal remedies in pharmacovigilance systems is becoming one of the primary tasks, due to the constantly ascending potential of herbal products and herbal medicines worldwide. Nowadays, drug development is focused on finding new active compounds or combinations, but costs are simultaneously growing, which makes herbal medicines an attractive, harmless, and cheaper alternative to synthetic drugs.