Natural Product Tsunami

Global rising trends for natural products consumption, establishing traditional medicines, vast propagation, and simple access to legal or illegal natural medications have encountered health systems with a disastrous tsunami, which was not fully predicted and programmed for throughout medical education. For instance, concomitant with establishing traditional system of Iranian medicine, around 700 natural remedies, and thus far 2871 production licenses (natural products, traditional remedies, packages, extracts, and essential oils) are issued in Iran (1). Such a huge bulk of remedies is required for establishing traditional medicines in countries like China, India, Iran, and the rest of the world. Pharmacy shops, supermarkets, malls, health shops (including traditional Attaries), and E-shops are the main sources for accessing such products. Thousands of illegal natural products are daily impounded from such places by the organizations in charge (2). If intact or semisynthetic natural compounds, such as atropine, taxol, digoxicin, vinca alkaloids, morphine, etc., are excluded, different legal or illegal types of natural and allied products that cause disasters may be classified as the followings: