Chinese Journal of Pharmacovigilance ›› 2010, Vol. 7 ›› Issue (9): 533-535.

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Explaining Methods of the Safety with the Thought of Pharmacovigilance of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Literatures

WANG Jian1, BAN Bing -kun1 ,GAO Tian2 ,HE Yan2 ,ZHOU Ya -li3, HUANG Wen -zhi1, YANG Juan3 ,WU Cheng -yun3 ,LUO Qun -ying3 ,LAN Shan3   

  1. 1.Chengdu University of TCM, Sichuan Chengdu 610075, China;
    2.Teaching hospital of Chengdu University of TCM, Sichuan Chengdu 610075, China;
    3.Sichuan Food and Drug Safety Monitoring and Evaluation Certification Center, Sichuan Chengdu 610017, China
  • Received:2010-02-01 Revised:2016-03-09 Online:2010-09-08 Published:2016-03-09

Abstract: In order to provide theoretical basis for studying the content of adverse reaction/event of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM), exploring the Methods and rules of controlling toxicity and guiding rational use TCM in clinical, analysis the safety and pharmacovigilance of TCM in literatures. Our research shows: from the record of history, the doctors and pharmacists were pay much more attention to the safety of TCM and using "poison" explained the safety of TCM and pharmacovigilance. Also in order to ensure the safety of using TCM in clinical, reducing toxicity by controlling doses, processing and modification according to varies symptoms, etc. It is worth researching on the safety of TCM, since it contains extremely rich theoretical knowledge and valuable clinical experiences.

Key words: Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM), safety, adverse drug reaction(ADR)

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