CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE STRATEGIES OF PHARMACOVIGILANCE

Pharmacovigilance is the science and activities relating to the recognization evaluation and prevention of the adverse effect or any other possible drug related problems related to synthetic herbal traditional and complementary medicines. Herbal formulations have reached extensive acceptability as therapeutic agents for diabetics Arthritis liver disease cough and cold memory enhancement throughout the world.

Herbals are traditionally considered harmless and increasingly being consumed by people without prescription. Systemic data on the incidence of traditional medicines associated adverse effects are not available due to many Complex issues including products with multiple ingredients poor standardization lack of clinical trials variation in manufacturing processes contamination adulteration and Ms identification of Herbs etc.

Pharmacovigilance for Herbal medicines is in its formative years and monitoring the safety of herbal medicines presents unique challenges as such preparations are available from a wide range of outlets where no Healthcare professionals are available. This review aims to provide a comprehensive and Critical overview on the current state of pharmacovigilance for Herbal medicines at National and global levels. This article explores the in depth challenges associated with herbal pharmacovigilance considering emerging issues and recommendations to improve safety monitoring for Herbal medicines in the future.

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CINNAMON AS ANTI MICROBIAL AGENT

Hands are primary mode of transmission of microbes and infections. Through hand hygiene a simple and least expensive means of prevent health care associated infections specially derived from environmental surfaces. The present research was aimed to evaluate the antimicrobial efficacy of Cinnamon oil extract found that it showed better antimicrobial activity. Also the research was carried out to formulate and evaluate the Hand wash gel containing Cinnamon oil. The anti-microbial activity of the formulated hand wash gel was tested against Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacilius subtilis and pseudomonas vulagaris by spread plate techniques and the results obtained were compared with standard antibiotic.

DNA FINGERPRINTING

Medicinal plants have been used universally since ancient days to sustain health and to treat diseases. However, adulteration and use of specious materials as substitutes have become a major apprehension for users and industry for reasons of safety and efficacy. Therefore, authentication of medicinal plants is of utmost importance. Morphological, anatomical, chemical and DNA markers solve the problem by differentiating the genuine material from the adulterants, substitutes and spurious drugs.

GRANULATION PROCESS

GRANULATION PROCESS: Granulation process :- It is a process in which the powder particles are made to adhere to form larger, multi particle entities called granules. A dough mass is prepared to form the granules.

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