Quality Control of Herbal Drugs

Quality Control of Herbal Drugs describes in detail the extraction of herbal drugs and good agricultural and harvesting practices in order to cultivate these herbs. The importance of herbal therapies and their usage in comparison with conventional drugs have been described in this book.

There is a separate profile on pharmacological screening, which includes evaluation of antidiabetic agents, liver carcinogenesis, anti ulcers agents, repellant and others. Intensive research on densitometry has also been mentioned along with other procedures like TLC and guidelines. Assessment by drug regulators along with herbal drug regulations in India have been mentioned as well.

Other practices that have been mentioned include quality assurance and stability test. This book is extremely useful for researchers in the same field, manufacturers of herb extracts and wholesalers or distributors of herb extracts. Even people who are fond of growing medicinal herbs would enjoy reading this book in detail. Quality Control of Herbal Drugs was published by Business Horizons in 2002 and is available in hardcover.

Key Features:

• Analytical profile of selected medicinal plants like Acorus calamus, Adhatoda vasica and more has been done in order to perform a thorough quality check on them.
• The herbal drugs are also tested for their safety and toxicity.
• In this book, there is also a detailed description on antimicrobial and parasiticidal screening of herbal drugs, which includes antimalarial activity, amoebicidal activity, cytotoxicity, etc.