ABSTRACT
Chaudhury (1992) classied countries into three categories to discuss the regulatory aspects: (1) countries with heritage in the use of traditional systems of medicine long before the development of modern medicine and where herbal medicine continues to be used as a form of medicine at present, for example, India and China; (2) countries where the modern system of medicine is well developed, but traditional folk medicine, without teaching or textbooks, has always been practiced to some extent, for example, Germany and the United Kingdom; and (3) countries where herbal remedies were not used to any appreciable extent in the past, but in recent times due to their use by migrant populations and a growing interest in herbal remedies by local residents, for example, Canada and Australia. He briey described the situations that are prevailing in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
