Monitoring the Safety of Herbal Medicines in Yemen: A Call for Action

Consuming modern medicines with traditional herbs to treat and prevent diseases or even maintain health well-being is common in different countries. Despite the high prevalence of this activity Yemen, there neither proper regulation that controls production, standardization, quality control use nor an appropriate system for herbal pharmacovigilance Yemen. Yemenis prefer before resorting allopathic medicines, sometimes concomitant alternative medication. Most people believe are safe, though many side effects associated medicines. For safe effective medication, should be a from official authorities their preparation, selling, control, monitoring effects. The World Health Organization (WHO) stated guideline safety within current framework. However, reporting adverse Yemen limited, situation more complicated challenging present article highlighted challenges provided recommendations application pharmacovigilance.