EVALUATION OF PHYTOTHERAPHIC APPLICATIONS IN TOXICOLOGICAL TERMS WITH IN THE SCOPE OF TRADITIONAL AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

Year 2017, Volume: Volume 2 Issue: İssue 1 (1) - 2.İnternational Congress Of Forensic Toxicology, 118 - 118, 16.02.2017

Günnur Orhan Selçuk Salim Erdoğan Taşkın Atak

Abstract

Phytotherapy is
described as an application done by using herbs medical effects of which are
scientifically proved; the parts of them containing active ingredients and/or
their organic products produced through a transaction and based on these the
standardised pharmaceutic forms (pellet, capsule, tincture…) and herbal medicinal
products so as to be protected from disease and to support the treatment.

The origin of
herbal medicine is based on hundreds of years ago. Ninova Tablets which are the
first written documents on this subject and belong to the year 3000 B.C. prove
there are treatments with herbal and animal drugs in Mesopotamia. In the period
of Islamic Civilization Ebu Reyhan, Ibn-i Sina (Avicenna) who is the writer of
the work “The Canon of Medicine” and Al Gafinihave written important Works
about herbal medicine. 

The World Health
Organisation (WHO) accepts medicinal plants in 1980 by defining them as “a kind
of herb which can be theurepathic or inhibitory with its one or more organs or
may be the precurs or of any chemical pharmaceutical synthesis.”

It should be kept
in mind that what is organic is not always healthy. Most of herbs are seriously
toxican damong other complementary therapies phytotheraphy is riskier in terms
of side effects and toxicity. Herbal products and medicinal herbs may exhibit
severe toxic reactions when not used in appropriate doses and duration, and
they may even be lethal. It is reported that herbal medicines show side effects
and even lethal effects as a result of their contamination with pesticides,
heavy metals, and other herbal and synthetic drugs.

In the
evaluation of phytotheraphy applications in toxicological terms, factors such
as dose, duration and type of exposition, medicine interaction; effective
substance interaction, interaction between medicine and food; gender, age,
ethnicity, pregnancy, adverse effects etc. should be taken into account.

Taking herbal
medicines into analyses of activity and toxicity, as done for synthetic
medicines, and getting them licensed by medical authorities will increase their
reliability.

Phytotheraphy
should be used wisely in the light of scientific literature in order to protect
public health with effective and safe herbal products and to contribute to the
treatment.

Keywords

EVALUATION OF PHYTOTHERAPHIC APPLICATIONS IN TOXICOLOGICAL TERMS WITH IN THE SCOPE OF TRADITIONAL AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

References

• Günnur ORHAN, Selçuk Salim ERDOĞAN, Taşkın ATAK The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey Turkish Public Health Institution Department of Consumer Safety Laboratories Toxicology Loboratories