WHO has developed these general
guidelines in response to the question: what types of academic research
approaches and methods can be used to evaluate the safety and efficacy
of traditional medicine? The guidelines consist of sections on herbal
medicines, traditional procedure-based therapies, clinical research, and
related issues including ethics, education and training, and
surveillance systems.
The specific objectives of the guidelines are to: harmonize the use
of certain accepted and important terms in traditional medicine;
summarize key issues for developing methodologies for research and
evaluation of traditional medicine; improve the quality and value of
research in traditional medicine; and provide appropriate evaluation
methods to facilitate the development of regulation and registration of
traditional medicine.
http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Jwhozip42e/3.2.html#Jwhozip42e.3.2
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