Contact dermatitis as an adverse reaction to some topically used European herbal medicinal products - part 1: Achillea millefolium-Curcuma longa

Gioacchino Calapai; Marco Miroddi; Paola L Minciullo; Achille P Caputi; Sebastiano Gangemi; Richard J Schmidt

doi:10.1111/cod.12222

Contact dermatitis as an adverse reaction to some topically used European herbal medicinal products - part 1: Achillea millefolium-Curcuma longa

Contact Dermatitis. 2014 Jul;71(1):1-12. doi: 10.1111/cod.12222. Epub 2014 Mar 13.

Authors

Gioacchino Calapai¹, Marco Miroddi, Paola L Minciullo, Achille P Caputi, Sebastiano Gangemi, Richard J Schmidt

Affiliation

¹ Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy; Operative Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico 'G. Martino', 98125 Messina, Italy.

PMID: 24621152
DOI: 10.1111/cod.12222

Abstract

This review focuses on contact dermatitis as an adverse effect of a selection of topically used herbal medicinal products for which the European Medicines Agency has completed an evaluation up to the end of November 2013 and for which a Community herbal monograph has been produced. Part 1: Achillea millefolium L.-Curcuma longa L.

Keywords: Achillea millefolium; Aesculus hippocastanum; Aloe spp; Arctium lappa; Calendula officinalis; Cinnamomum verum; Commiphora spp; Curcuma longa; contact allergy; contact dermatitis; herbal medicine; phytodermatitis.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Achillea / adverse effects
Aesculus / adverse effects
Aloe / adverse effects
Arctium / adverse effects
Calendula / adverse effects
Cinnamomum zeylanicum / adverse effects
Commiphora / adverse effects
Curcuma / adverse effects
Dermatitis, Contact / etiology*
Humans
Phytotherapy / adverse effects*
Plant Extracts / adverse effects
Plant Preparations / adverse effects*

Substances

Plant Extracts
Plant Preparations