Abstract

Herbal products are now being mainstay of about 80% of the world population for primary health care. The belief that herbs are safe is not completely true, as many cases of untoward effects are observed following their imprudent use. Therefore, we need to have regulative measures on herbal products that would keep check on each step of entire process of drug development. Ensuring efficacy and safety of these products is going to increase the global acceptance and would be serving a greater number of populations worldwide in an inculpable manner. Working in this direction almost every country has developed their plan of work for regulation of herbal products that are referred as traditional medicines, alternative medicines, complimentary medicines, natural health product, health supplements etc. Electronic review method was used to compile information for this review on the regulation of herbal product around the world in this study. The data were collected from different databases such as Google scholar, ResearchGate, PubMed, pharma tutor, and etc.

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