Medical Doctor and Herbal Medicine; to Know or not!

One of the frequent issues observed by medical doctors is the inclining of patients to applications other than allopathic therapies. The most common method among these applications is the usage of herbs for the purpose of therapy by patients and public. People who try to provide benefit from this incline of public, try to keep this kind of applications on agenda by the way of media and advertisements and this is a very common issue worldwide. It is impossible to be uninfluenced from these attempts. How should be the attitude of medical doctors for herbal therapeutic applications? The answer for this question is searched in this review. [TAF Prev Med Bull. 2009; 8(3): 259-262]