Contact dermatitis as an adverse reaction to some topically used European herbal medicinal products - Part 3: Mentha × piperita - Solanum dulcamara.

Gioacchino Calapai, Paola L Minciullo, Marco Miroddi, Ioanna Chinou, Sebastiano Gangemi, Richard J Schmidt

Journal: Contact dermatitis 2016;74(3):131-44

PMID: 26563681

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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 2015)(†) called a European Union herbal monograph - has been produced. Part 3: Mentha × piperita L.-Solanum dulcamara L.

Address: Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria, 98125, Messina, Italy.; Operative Unit of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico 'G. Martino', Via Consolare Valeria, 98125, Messina, Italy.; Division of Pharmacognosy & Chemistry of Natural Products, Department of Pharmacy, University of Athens, 157 71 Zografou, Athens, Greece.; Institute of Clinical Physiology, IFC CNR, Messina Unit, Via Consolare Valeria, 98125, Messina, Italy.; BoDD - Botanical Dermatology Database, Penarth, UK.

DOI: 10.1111/cod.12483

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MeSH Terms: Dermatitis, Contact, Europe, Humans, Mentha piperita, Oenothera biennis, Phytotherapy, Pimpinella, Plant Preparations, Quercus, Rosmarinus, Ruscus, Salvia officinalis, Solanum