Green pharmacy

Daughton CG (2003) Cradle-to-cradle stewardship of drugs for minimizing their environmental disposition while promoting human health. I. rational for and avenues toward a green pharmacy. Environ Health Perspect 111 757-774... 

Daughton CG, Ruhoy IS (2011) Green pharmacy and pharmecovigilance prescribing and the planet. Exp Rev Clin Pharmacol 4 211-232... 

Kiimmerer, K. (2007) Sustainable from the very beginning rational design of molecules by life cycle engineering as an important approach for green pharmacy and green chemistry. Green Chem., 9 (8), 899-907. 

Duke, J.A., The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook, Rodale, New York, 2000. 

James A. Duke, in a book entitled the Green Pharmacy lamenting the therapeutic efficacy of herbal plants, states ... 

Duke, J. A. (1997) The Green Pharmacy. Emmaus, PA Rodale Press. 

For an introduction to the history of herbalogy and some of the early treatises, there is The Rodale Herb Book, edited by William H. Hylton (1974). In the Western world, it is noted that the impetus started during the Elizabethan Age, though herbal tradition started much earlier in China. More details are contained in Barbara Griggs Green Pharmacy The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine (1991),... 

Griggs, B. 1991 [1981]. Green Pharmacy The History and Evolution of Western Herhal Medicine. Rochester, VT Healing Arts Press. 

Duke JA The Green Pharmacy. Ephrata, PA, Rodale Press, 1997. 

Bergner, Paul. The Healing Power of Ginseng and the Tonic Herbs. Rocklin, CA Prima Publishing, 1996. Duke, James A. The Green Pharmacy. Emmaus, PA Rodale Press, 1998. 

Production of more easily, biologically, degradable medicines (green pharmacy)... 

An approach that tries to solve the problem more at the source is the so-called green pharmacy. In order to stimulate the development of more easily degradable medicines, both for human as well as for veterinary medicines, European guidelines are formulated. At the application stage to get a marketing authorisation the manufacturer has to give information about the effects of the medicine on the environment as well as an evaluation of those effects and measurements which have to be taken to prevent or reduce these effects [33-35]. When veterinary products are concerned, authorities can even deny the registration if the environmental risk is considered too big. Market authorisation can... 

The environmental burden caused by medicine use is a subject of increasing research. For now, humans seem to run no direct risk. Nevertheless, humans may run an indirect risk by harming the environment. In the short term, hope is placed upon innovations in the field of waste water treatment, and on the contribution of the patient by returning unused medicines to the pharmacy. The development of green medicines , which do not cause harm to the environment, and a responsible use and management of those medicines (green pharmacy) is the ultimate goal. 

Bansode, V.J. 2012. A review on pharmacological activities of Cinnamomum cassia Blume. International Journal of Green Pharmacy, 6 102-8. 

Hosseininejad, Z., Moghadam, S.D., Ebrahimi, F., Abdollahi, M., Zahedi, M.J., Nazari, M., Hayatbakhsh, M., Adeli, S., Sharififar, F. 2011. In vitro screening of selected Iranian medicinal plants against helicobacter pylori. International Journal of Green Pharmacy, 5 282—285. 

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