title: Regulation and quality control of herbal drugs in Korea.
abstract: Korea has a great diversity in resources of medicinal plants. The traditional herbal medicines and their preparations have been widely used in Korea as well as in China and Japan for thousands of years. One of the characteristics of Korean herbal medicine preparations is that all the herbal medicines are incorporated into an extractor at the same time and extracted with boiling water during the decoction process. In this process, a variety of interactions between the active components of several herbal medicines may occur. This is the main reason why quality control of oriental herbal drug is more difficult than that of western herbal drug. In this paper, we would like to present an overview of the characteristics of regulation and quality control of herbal medicines in Korea.
authors.affiliation: Department of Herbal Medicines Evaluation, Korea Food and Drug Administration, Seoul 122-704, South Korea. cdwkje@hanmail.net
authors.forename: Don Woong
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Jong Hwan
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: So Yean
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Dal Hwan
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seung Yeup
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D004345:Drug Industry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D007880:Legislation, Drug / Q000639:trends*; D028321:Plant Preparations / Q000592:standards*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D011786:Quality Control; D012106:Research
chemical_list: D028321:Plant Preparations