Pharmacovigilance of Antidiabetic Herbal Drugs | Chapter 15 | Herbal Approaches towards Diabetes

 The science of "Pharmacovigilance" aims to lower the likelihood that consumers would suffer drug-related harms. Pharmacovigilance is the practice of recognizing adverse medication reactions, treating them, documenting, reporting, and making regulatory choices based on these results. Pharmacovigilance, in general, is the science of gathering, monitoring, assessing, and interpreting data from consumers and healthcare professionals on the adverse effects of pharmaceuticals, including herbal and conventional treatments. The global campaign to increase patient safety is gaining traction, making medication safety an even more important topic in the modern environment. The practice of pharmacovigilance is expanding in India as well, keeping up with the times. Today, people from many different groups utilize herbal remedies all around the world. Herbal preparations, such as cough treatments, hepatoprotectives, and anti-diabetics, have gained universal acceptance as medicinal agents. Herbal medications are often regarded as safe since they come from natural sources. This is untrue, as there are numerous case reports of herbal medicine side effects that are described in public literature. Even though the majority of conventional medicines are thought to be safe, it remains difficult to gauge and quantify the likelihood of extremely uncommon side outcomes. One serious incident is sufficient to swing the balance against using alternative medicine therapy. If an alternative medicine therapy has a benefit, If an alternative medicine therapy has limited or unproven benefits, then the existence of even a very slight increase in the probability of a major occurrence will work against it [1,2].

Author(s) Details:

Dimpi Dewangan,
Department of Pharmacy, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India.

Neeli Rose Beck,
Department of Pharmacy, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India.

Rishika Gupta,
Department of Pharmacy, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India.

Sourabh Ghosh,
Department of Pharmacy, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India.

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