This book aims to provide an easy reference guide to the active ingredients of over 500 over-the-counter pharmaceuticals and non-prescription medicines and to the applications and potential hazards of these ingredients. It includes some of those used in herbal remedies.

Over-the-counter pharmaceuticals and non-prescription medicines, such as anti-dandruff shampoos, skin-care products, painkillers and disinfectants, sell on the strength of adverts which are often biased and uninformative. This book aims to provide an easy reference guide to the active ingredients of over 500 such products and to the applications and potential hazards of these ingredients, including some of those used in herbal remedies.