TABLE 5.
Characteristics of 1,105 reported licensed herbal medicine products.
Causality of each drug | n (%) |
---|---|
Suspected drug | 913 (82.6) |
Concomitant drug | 192 (17.4) |
Interacting drug | 0 (0.0) |
Administration period | |
up to 1 day | 145 (13.1) |
2–5 days | 94 (8.5) |
6–10 days | 26 (2.4) |
11–50 days | 70 (6.3) |
50 days ∼ | 18 (1.6) |
(Missing) | 752 (68.1) |
Action taken | |
Drug withdrawn | 494 (44.7) |
Dose reduced | 38 (3.4) |
Dose not changed | 82 (7.4) |
Unknown | 45 (4.1) |
Not applicable | 89 (8.1) |
(Missing) | 357 (32.3) |