Table 2.

Safety data for some herbal medicinal products containing ethanol^a

Herbal medicinal product	Period	Daily doses sold (n, million)	Corresponding number of patients (n, million)	ADRs attributable to ethanol
Allergo-loges®	2003–2009	3.4	0.1	None
Bronchicum® Elixir	2004–2009	19.3	1.6	None
Bronchicum® Tropfen	2004–2009	47.8	4.0	None
Contramutan® N Saft	2004–2009	4.8	0.4	None
Contramutan® Tropfen	2004–2009	2.1	0.2	None
Diarrhoesan®	2003–2009	4.4	0.6	None
Iberogast®	1993–2009	636.9	22.7	None
Influex®	1993–2009	15.5	1.5	None
Melrosum® Hustensirup	2004–2009	2.1	0.2	None
Monapax® Saft	2004–2009	7.2	0.6	None
Monapax® Tropfen	2004–2009	1.5	0.1	None
Phytobronchin® Saft S Lösung	1994–2009	3.4	0.4	None
Phytohustil® Hustenreizstiller Sirup	2000–2009	11.4	1.4	None
Soledum® Hustensaft	2004–2009	3.5	0.3	None
Soledum® Hustentropfen	2004–2009	1.3	0.1	None
Total		764.6	34.3	None

^aFigures provided by the manufacturers. Figures are available partly from 1993 and partly from 2003/2004 on up to 2009