Contact dermatitis as an adverse reaction to some topically used European herbal medicinal products - part 4: Solidago virgaurea-Vitis vinifera

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 - now (since 2014) called a 'European Union herbal monograph' - has been produced. The present part 4 addresses species from Solidago virgaurea L. to Vitis vinifera L.

Keywords: Solidago virgaurea; Syzygium aromaticum; Tanacetum parthenium; Taraxacum officinale; Thymus vulgaris; Trigonella foenum-graecum; Viola spp.; Vitis vinifera; contact allergy; contact dermatitis; herbal medicine; phytodermatitis.