A Healthy Future for Natural Medicine: Empowered by Specific Evidence Product-specific evidence helps advance transparency, informed choice, and mainstream acceptance for natural medicines with clinical evidence
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A Healthy Future for Natural Medicine: Empowered by Specific Evidence
Product-specific evidence helps advance transparency, informed choice, and mainstream acceptance for natural medicines with clinical evidence
Product-specific evidence helps advance transparency, informed choice, and mainstream acceptance for natural medicines with clinical evidence
Description
Herbal gram (2023), Pollard, Nigel.
Journal Publication
issn
08102-5648
Date
Language
English
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Abstract
Building the next era of the natural health industry on solid, evidence-based foundations is an exciting prospect. For naturally sourced medicines to be fully integrated into mainstream health care, it must be recognized that evidence for variable, chemically complex natural medicines is product specific. This is particularly true for botanical-based formulations and so-called phytomedicines. Barriers to identifying “specific evidence” products† and the consequences of these barriers are examined. A pathway to link published clinical evidence to products on the market today is presented, and products that have been independently assessed through this pathway are named. Further changes are underway that will provide increased transparency, support informed choice, and underpin a sustainable future for the natural health industry.
issue
137
page start
48
page end
57