Clinical recommendations about herbal weight loss should depend upon the quality, safety and efficacy of the herbal weight loss supplements. Quality, safety and efficacy should be ensured before using an herbal weight loss product. The question of efficacy of herbal weight loss is a complex one. At same time it is tricky also.

Herbal weight loss industry has used the slogan ‘no side effects’ to its full potential to gain its today share of medicine market. As herbal medicine is not taught as standard deviation of medicine in world, so it is quite difficult to certify a herbal formula as a safe working formula. Herbal medicine is being practiced at different standards and under various banners of Ayuerveda, Alternative medicine, Chinese medicine and Tibe-e-Younani in different parts of the world. The herbs used for medicinal purposes are known in each division of herbal medicine with a different name. Botanically characteristics described are quite different as claimed by each division of herbal medicine.

It is therefore a difficult task to assess the functional ability of herbal drug for a layman by its simple description on drug package material or by drug manuals provided by herbal medicine manufacturers. Proper use of herbal medicine and alternative medicine can be brought into main stream by research and standardization of the drugs. Same type of problems lingers with herbal weight loss. There is no such authentic information available for common man to use natural weight loss therapy. Even most selling herbal weight loss supplements have not been put to research oriented experimental tests by an credible medical body. The proofs or success stories provided are based on the personal experience of a consumer. Efficacy of herbal medicine will be there as it is traditional medicine and most time tested medicine, but the thing of concern is systemization of herbal medicine and quality of drugs. Efficacy of some weight loss herbs is in the tabulated form below. A simple method to judge efficacy of a drug is monitoring after prescription of a drug. The follow up of weight loss herb prescription may help to sort out better herbal weight loss formulas and products.