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Acta Biomedica Scientia

Volume 4, Issue 3, 2017
Mcmed International
Acta Biomedica Scientia
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2348 - 215X (Print), 2348 - 2168 (Online)
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bi-annual
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Abstract
Title
TRADITIONAL AND MODERN APPROACHES FOR STANDARDIZATION OF HERBAL DRUGS: A REVIEW
Author
Gulzar Alam* and Arun K Mishra
Email
gulzar_alam@rediffmail.com
keyword
World Health Organization, Standardization, Ayurvedic, Quality control protocol, Spectroscopic fingerprinting.
Abstract
Nearly 80% of the world population use herbal medicine and World Health Organisation (WHO) also encourages, recommends and promotes the inclusion of herbal drags in national health care programmes because such drags are easily available at a price within the reach of common man and as such are time tested and thus considered to be safer than modem synthetic drags. Herbal drug is a main constituent in traditional medicine and a common constituent in ayurvedic, homeopathic, naturopathic and other medicine systems. Since the herbal formulations are of mainly plant origin, they are susceptible to contamination from different sources, detoriation and variations of chemical composition. Therefore to ensure the safety and efficacy of herbal medicines, standardization and development of quality control protocols for herbal medicines is extremely important. For the identification of medicinal plants and their constituents, WHO guidelines provide the fingerprinting methods to meet the global standards of quality control of the herbal formulations. Standardization in itself involves many parameters like gross morphology, microscopy, physical parameters, chemical fingerprinting, chromatographic fingerprinting, spectroscopic fingerprinting, DNA marker finger printing etc. The standardization of herbal drugs may give acceptance by worldwide moreover it improves the therapeutic efficacy and safety of the drugs. The present review article includes physical, chemical and various analytical methods of analysis as well as modern approaches employed in the standardization of herbal drugs/formulations.
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