Exploring Herbal Medicine: Applying Epidemiology Principles
A special issue of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISSN 2813-0618).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 98
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Interests: public health; hygiene; medicinal chemistry; natural products; antioxidants; pharmacoepidemiology; nutritional epidemiology; structure-activity relationships; drug utilisation; risk minimization and communication
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Dear Colleagues,
Herbal medicine stands at the intersection of traditional practices and modern healthcare, offering potential therapeutic benefits. Delving into the epidemiological aspects of herb therapies is crucial in harnessing their efficacy and ensuring patient safety.
This Special Issue will bridge the gap between herbal medicine and epidemiology, focusing on a range of herbal treatments and their interactions, outcomes, and safety profiles.
We welcome original research articles and reviews that explore the epidemiological principles underlying herbal medicine. Potential themes for submissions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Epidemiological studies on the utilization and safety of specific herbal remedies;
- Investigations into the effectiveness of herbal interventions in population health;
- Evaluations of herbal drug interactions and their implications;
- Assessments of the public health impacts of herbal medicine use;
- Analyses of traditional knowledge and contemporary epidemiological practices in herbal medicine research.
We look forward to receiving your insightful contributions to this Special Issue, which will enrich our understanding of herbal medicine through the lens of epidemiology.
Dr. Christos Kontogiorgis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural products
- herbal medicines
- medicinal plants
- ethnopharmacology
- pharmacoepidemiology
- drug utilization
- real-world data evidence
- herbal toxicity
- population-based studies
- public health
- herbal products regulations
- medicinal plants pharmacovigilance
- herbal drugs’ efficacy and safety
- herbal products and drug interactions
- pharmacological mechanisms
- medicinal products development and quality assurance
- traditional medicine
- adverse effects
- medicinal plant therapies
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