The
research of new
herbal drugs involves in new
herbal drugs development and renew the old
drugs. It is necessary to
research new
herbal drugs based on the theory of
traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The current development of famous TCM focuses on the manufacture process,
quality control standards, material basis and clinical
research. But system management of security evaluation is deficient, the relevant system for the
safety assessment TCM has not been established. The causes of security problems, security
risks, target organ of
toxicity, weak link of
safety evaluation, and ideas of
safety evaluation are discussed in this
paper. The
toxicology research of
chinese herbal drugs is necessary based on standard of good
laboratory practices (GLP), the characteristic of
Chinese herbal drugs is necessary to be fully integrated into
safety evaluation. The
safety of new
drug research is necessary to be integrated throughout the entire process. Famous
Chinese medicine safety research must be paid more
attention in the
future.