List of Herbal Medicinal Products
One of the key policies to integrate TTM into the treatment of
diseases has been the selection of herbal medicinal products into the
National List of Essential Drugs in order to promote their use in the public health facilities. As of the
year 2010, there are 19 items of
herbal medicinal products listed
in the National List of Essential
Drugs (A.D. 2006) B.E. 2549.
Of those 19 items, 11 are herbal
medicines of which their use is
based on traditional knowledge,
while 8 items are single herbal
medicines that have been scientifically
developed. Currently, a
Working Group was appointed
by the Subcommittee on the
Development of the National
List of Essential Drugs to select
many more herbal medicines for
inclusion into the National List of Essential Drugs and the Hospital
Formularies of Herbal Medicinal Products so that doctors would have more
herbal medicines to choose from in place of modern medicines.