Quality Control And Evaluation Of Herbal Drugs

Quality Control and Evaluation of Herbal Drugs brings together current thinking and practice in the area of quality control and standardization of herbal drugs. The use of herbal medicine in therapeutics is on the rise in both developed and developing countries, and this book facilitates the necessary development of quality standards for these medicines.

A leader in the field, Pulok K. Mukherjee describes and discusses the many methods, techniques, and approaches for evaluating the purity, quality, safety and efficacy of herbal drugs. Particular attention is paid to methods that assess these drugs' activity, the compounds responsible, and their underlying mechanisms of action.

The book describes the quality control parameters followed in India and other countries, including Japan, China, Bangladesh, Srilanka and other Asian countries, as well as the regulatory profiles of the European Union and North America. This book is also useful as a bio-prospecting tool for traditional-medicine-inspired drug discovery and development.