Pharmacovigilance of Chinese medicine: practice of cognition, application, prevention and rescue of drug toxicity

Abstract

Toxicity of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) is the core of pharmacovigilance of Chinese medicine, whose initiation, development and practice revolves around the toxicity of TCM. Toxicity of TCM has rich meanings, and are influenced by three factors: drug composition, clinical use and patient constitution. With the increasingly deep understanding of toxicity of TCM, the cognition of clinicians is more objective, and the application, prevention and rescue are more complete. Therefore, based on the analysis of large numbers of ancient books, we put forward the whole pharmacovigilance theoretical frame that is formed by cognition, application, prevention and rescue of drug toxicity, which comprehensively reflects the academic Characteristics of safety medication in TCM.