Herbal pharmacy (derived from Greek 'pharmakon' - drug) is a health profession links health sciences with chemical sciences and herbal sciences, and it is fully charged with ensuring effective and safe usage of medication based on herbs. The frames of pharmacy practice contain more traditional roles like compounding and dispensation medications, and it includes as well more modern services that are related to a patient care, containing reviewing medications for efficacy and safety, clinical services, and providing the drug information. The word form pharmacy goes from the root word pharma that is a term used from the 1400–1600s. Additionally to pharma responsibilities, pharma offered also general medical advice plus some range of services now performed by the other specialist practitioners, like surgery and midwifery. Pharma often operated through retail shop that, together with the ingredients for medicines, also sold patent medicines and tobacco. The pharmas used as well many other herbs that are not listed.

In the investigation of chemical and herbal ingredients, the pharma's work may be considered a predecessor of the modern pharmacology as well as modern herbal medicine. Herbal pharmacy is a traditional folk medicine practice that is based just on the usage of plants or plant extracts. It is known also as botanical medicine, herbalism, herbal medicine, phytotherapy, and herbology. 

A lot of plants synthesize the substances useful for the health maintenance in humans and other animals. They include aromatic substances, major part of them are phenols and their derivatives like tannins. In many cases, such substances serve like plant defense mechanisms from predation by herbivores, insects, and microorganisms.

Last days online pharmacy has become rather wide-spread. The main reasons for it are convenience and privacy. Online prescription is possible and even more convenient only in cases when a patient needs not any physical examination. Patient's medical history is thoroughly reviewed through online consultation and private doctor makes a prescription. To get some specific medication he/she needs attend to the conditions. Patient can get the prescription drugs at any online drugstore. Internet drug store in general presents the same range of products as usual drugstore apart from pharmaceuticals. There can be used different types of payments such as credit cards or paypal.

Today on the same row with pills there are a lot of health supplements. Such supplements can be targeted for a diet problem or as a part of weight loss diet program. There are supplements for the eyes, the liver, the heart, the skin care (especially in case of acne), and even those that are used as a part of face lift program. A lot of supplements work for minimizing disease helping to get rid of toxins people are exposed to each day. Patients can choose synthetic or natural supplements. Herbalife can offer health, fitness and nutritional supplements plus personal care with weight management products.