Herbal medicines make up a significant constituent of the tendency
towards alternative medicine. Medicine is becoming ever more popular in today's
world as people seek out natural remedies. Have been used since the dawn of
Civilization to maintain health and to treat various diseases. To compete with
the growing Pharmaceutical market there is an importance to use and
scientifically authenticate more medicinal e useful herbal products. Medicinal
plants are the primary life supporting system for rural and tribal communities
and over 8000 species of plants have been estimated to be used in Indigenous
Health system.
There are around 50 species widely used under cultivation. In the olden days indigenous medicines had attained a very high standard and we have stalwarts in Ayurveda Siddha Unani Allopathy and Homeopathy. The importance of plants in the medical treatment cannot be over estimated standardization starts at the initial stages from the production of quality materials. Quality control plays a major role in the drug production. India is sitting on a goldmine of well recorded and well practised knowledge of traditional herbal medicines.
The Indian systems of medicines that is Siddha
Ayurveda and Unani mainly encompass herbal medicines along with the Herbo- mineral
formulations. The quantity and quality of the safety and efficacy data on
traditional medicines are far from sufficient to meet the criteria needed to
support its use worldwide. This article provides a general idea of herbal
medicines and intended to explain the therapeutic effectiveness of various
herbal medicines adverse drug reactions drug interactions standardization and
stability testing of herbal medicines
Herbal medicines make up a significant constituent of the tendency toward alternative medicine. Herbal medicine is becoming ever more popular in today’s world as people seek out natural remedies. Herbal medicines have been used since the dawn of civilization to maintain health and to treat various diseases. To compete with the growing pharmaceutical market, there is an importance to use and scientifically authenticate more medicinally useful herbal products.
This article provides a general idea of herbal medicines and intended to explain the therapeutic effectiveness of various herbal medicines, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, standardization and stability testing of herbal medicines, pharmacovigilance and regulatory status of herbal medicines.
Herbal medicines make up a significant constituent of the tendency toward alternative medicine. Herbal medicine is becoming ever more popular in today’s world as people seek out natural remedies. Herbal medicines have been used since the dawn of civilization to maintain health and to treat various diseases. To compete with the growing pharmaceutical market, there is an importance to use and scientifically authenticate more medicinally useful herbal products.
Keywords: Herbal drugs, Natural remedies, Pharmacovigilance, Standardization, Stability testing.
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