Safety of herbal products in Thailand: An analysis of reports in the thai health product vigilance center database from 2000 to 2008

Drug Safety

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 339-350

  Saokaew, Surasak ^a   Suwankesawong, Wimon ^b   Permsuwan, Unchalee ^c   Chaiyakunapruk, Nathorn ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PHAYAO   (Thailand)

^b MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

^c CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d NARESUAN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse reaction monitoring; Herbal medicines, adverse reactions; Postmarketing surveillance; Turmeric, adverse reactions.

Indexed keywords

ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA EXTRACT; ARTHROSPIRA PLATENSIS EXTRACT; BLACK PEPPER EXTRACT; CASSIA ALATA EXTRACT; CASSIA ANGUSTIFOLIA EXTRACT; CASSIA SIAMEA EXTRACT; CENTELLA ASIATICA EXTRACT; CISSUS QUADRANGULARIS EXTRACT; CLINACANTHUS NUTANS EXTRACT; CURCUMA LONGA EXTRACT; CURCUMA XANTHORRHIZA EXTRACT; DERRIS SCANDENS EXTRACT; GANODERMA LUCIDUM EXTRACT; GARLIC EXTRACT; GINGER EXTRACT; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; GINSENG EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MOMORDICA CHARANTIA EXTRACT; MORINDA CITRIFOLIA EXTRACT; OENOTHERA BIENNIS EXTRACT; PENNYWORT; PLAI; PUERARIA MIRIFICA EXTRACT; SOLANUM TRILOBATUM EXTRACT; TALINUM PANICULATA EXTRACT; TINOSPORA CRISPA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINGIBER CASSUMUNAR EXTRACT;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL DISTRESS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABNORMAL URINE COMPOSITION; ACNE; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGEUSIA; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANOREXIA; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLACK STOOL; BLOATING; BRONCHOSPASM; BULIMIA; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; BURNING SENSATION; CHEILITIS; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CHILD; COLD FEELING; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DATA BASE; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; DRY LIPS; DRY SKIN; DRY THROAT; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; ERUCTATION; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; EYELID EDEMA; FACE EDEMA; FAINTNESS; FATIGUE; FECES; FEMALE; FEVER; FLANK PAIN; FLATULENCE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAPE; GUM HYPERPLASIA; GYNECOMASTIA; HEADACHE; HEALTH CENTER; HEART PALPITATION; HEPATITIS; HOT DRY SKIN; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCREASED APPETITE; INSOMNIA; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEG EDEMA; LEG PAIN; LEUKORRHEA; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER PAIN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LOOSE FECES; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MICTURITION; MOUTH ANESTHESIA; MOUTH EDEMA; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; PAIN BURNING; PAPULAR RASH; PAPULOVESICULAR RASH; PARESTHESIA; PERIORBITAL EDEMA; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; POLYURIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PRURITUS; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RASH; SCHOOL CHILD; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN BURNING SENSATION; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SOMNOLENCE; SORE THROAT; SPUTUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SWEATING; SYNCOPE; THAI NATIONAL LIST OF ESSENTIAL MEDICINES; THAILAND; THIRST; THORAX PAIN; THROAT IRRITATION; TONGUE ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINE DISCOLORATION; URINE ODOR FOUL; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS; VESICULAR RASH; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG TOXICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLANT PREPARATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THAILAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952755021     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: 11791942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11586590-000000000-00000     Document Type: Article

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