European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy

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The European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy ( ESCOP for short ) is an umbrella organization of national European societies for phytotherapy ( herbal medicine ) founded in 1989 . Members from non-EU countries are also organized in it.

tasks

ESCOP was founded in 1989 in Cologne. The founding members were national professional societies from Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The ESCOP creates monographs on medicinal drugs through a scientific committee (cf. the German Commission E ). The aim was to harmonize the scientific and regulatory status of herbal medicinal products in Europe. At the same time, scientific research with medicinal plants should be promoted. Since 1992 monographs on medicinal plants have been published, in which u. a. Effect, areas of application and dosages are scientifically described. In 2003, 80 monographs were published in book form, and in 2009 another 27 were added. New monographs will be published online from 2011. The information in the monographs is used by pharmaceutical companies as an important guide for approval / registration applications for herbal medicinal products and, based on the provisions of the Community Code for Human Medicinal Products, can also be used by the pharmaceutical authorities when examining applications. The establishment of a monograph corresponds structurally to a summary of product characteristics (Summary of Product Characteristics) . ESCOP monographs provide a selected overview of the published literature. In various specialist publications, ESCOP monographs are mentioned alongside WHO monographs as literature sources and as expert opinions.

The contents of the ESCOP monographs have been translated into an easy-to-use app (ESCOP Herb Reference App) for a lay audience interested in the treatment of everyday complaints with herbal medicines.

The ESCOP took part in five specialist symposia, events in cooperation with the member societies and with the international society for medicinal plants and natural product research (GA). At a specialist symposium led by the Swiss Medical Society for Phytotherapy (SMGP) in 2014 with the University Hospital Zurich, the Research Institute for Biological Agriculture (FiBL), Frick, and the Phytopharmacy Department of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil ESCOP supporting active.

Members

Specialists from the following international companies and from several other countries are represented in ESCOP's Scientific Committee:

  • Germany: Society for Phytotherapy e. V.
  • France: Association Française pour le Médicament de Phytotherapy
  • Italy: Società Italiana di Fitochimica
  • Netherlands: Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fytotherapie
  • Austria: Austrian Society for Phytotherapy
  • Poland: Polish Herbal Committee
  • Portugal: Sociedade Portuguesa Fitoquimica e Fitoterapia (SpFito)
  • Romania: National Inter-Professional Organization of Associations in the Field of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
  • Switzerland: Swiss Medical Society for Phytotherapy www.smgp.ch
  • Spain: Sociedad Espanola de Fitoterapia (SEFIT)
  • Turkey: Turkish Society of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy
  • Turkey: Türk Fitoterapi Dernegi
  • Hungary: Hungarian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences - Medicinal Plant Section
  • United Kingdom: British Herbal Medicine Association

Specialized consultants from Belgium, Denmark and Ireland participate in ESCOP's Scientific Committee.

Works

  • Archives for Monograph
    Online monograph archive of the ESCOP. Brief summaries of the contents of the individual monographs can be viewed.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ESCOP Scientific Committee
  2. ↑ Phytotherapy: What are ESCOP monographs?
  3. ↑ ESCOP monographs . Thieme, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-13-129421-3 .
  4. ↑ ESCOP monographs. Supplement . Thieme, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-13-149981-3 .
  5. ↑ Electronic ESCOP Monographs ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / escop.com
  6. ↑ "If Community plant monographs have been drawn up within the meaning of this paragraph, they must be taken into account by the Member States when examining applications. If a Community herbal monograph has not yet been created, other relevant monographs, publications or data can be used. ” Directive 2001/83 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the creation of a Community code for medicinal products for human use , Article 16h.
  7. ↑ ESCOP on the website of the Society for Phytotherapy
  8. ^ A b Association Européenne des Spécialités Pharmaceutiques Grand Public (ed.): ESCOP and WHO monographs as well as WHO guidelines. In: Herbal Medicines in the European Union. Study on behalf of the European Commission. Brussels 2000, p. 58 (PDF; 880 kB).
  9. ↑ Bachmann C .: The dosage of herbal tinctures - a comparison of folk medical tradition and expert opinions. 2016, p. 318-320 , doi : 10.1159 / 000452467 ( karger.com [PDF]).
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Caesar: 20 YEARS ESCOP - Great to moderate success in the fight for phytopharmaceuticals. July 1, 2009, accessed January 20, 2017 .
  11. ^ T. Pfister, R. Saller, A. Fischer, BM Holzer, J. Reichling, M. Rostock, B. Ueheke: Medicinal herbs in the garden, planting, harvesting, using . Haupt Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-258-07830-4 , pp. 10-14, 40, 42, 353 .
  12. ↑ H. Schilcher, S. Kammerer: Guide to Phytotherapy . 2nd Edition. Urban & Fischer, 2003, ISBN 3-437-55341-0 , pp. 10-11, 22, 998 .
  13. ↑ ESCOP Herb Reference Apps. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
  14. ↑ ESCOP Members (2017)