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India is perhaps the largest producer of medicinal herbs and is rightly called the "Botanical Garden of the World". There are very few medicinal herbs of commercial importance, which are not collected of cultivated in this country. Medicinal herbs have been in use for thousands of years, in one form or another, under the indigenous systems of medicine like Ayurveda, Sidha and Unani, since independence in 1947, India has made tremendous progress in ...
There has been a resurgence in usage of herbal medicine in the past few years, not only among the traditional medicine users (ethno-medicine) but also among the modern consumers of herbal products. This is supplemented with all round growth of similar natural products among the nutritional supplements and personal care segments. The question of quality therefore acquires greater importance today than never before. Regulatory agencies and consumer groups on one ...
This book is aimed at filling the gap between a fresh pharmacy graduate and an approved manufacturing chemist in the field of drug formulations. All the formulations listed in this book are based on actual production batches undertaken in various factories. Wherever necessary, manufacturing processes have also been provided for the information of the manufacturing chemist. Most of the formulations listed have been manufactured by me and others by my friends and ...
Testing of medicinal herbs and their derivatives like extracts, phytochemicals, oleoresins etc has all along been a difficult and controversial subject due to the complex nature of the active constituents of the medicinal herbs found wild or cultivated in various regions of the world. An effort is on to include, at least some testing methods, in various pharmacopoeias but there is still a wide gap between the medicinal herbs and their testing methods. This book ...