Quality Standards of Indian Medicinal Plants: Volume- 16

Preface Medicinal plants remales the main serce of muticines for a large proportion of global population paricarly in the developing world In India the raw manat fir herbal medicinal products is mity procured from wild sous, there is every possibility o variation of chemical comminants in the material vllected from different geographical sources. There is also a pility of deliberate aduieron and substitution in the raw material is such a scenario the proper quality control if the herbal raw material as well as the finished products become essential Moreas the quality of raw materials used in the bestal drugs ames spcial significance particularly in untext of conducting experimental studies, clasical trials and their therapeutic vahar.

The Medicinal Plants Division of the Indian Council of Medical Research took initiatives fie developing Quality Standards of Modicmal Plants for more widely used raw materials involving laboratories of reputed institutes in the country to gente requisite data as per prescribed format for preparing monographs. Each monograph is titled with beamical nomenclature and incorporates diagnostic macro- and micmscopic features, phytochemical constituents, identification by chromatographic fingerprints (TLC GLCHPLC/HPTLCA quantitative determination of the phytochemical marker using reference marker compound, information of pharmacological, clinical toxicological aspects, dose, adulterants sublimites ele.

The pre 17% volume in the series of almady published 16 columes contains quality standards of 11 plants. The present publication is an outcome of the ICM programme under which work was camed out at Captais Srinivasa Murthy Regional Ayurveda Drug Development Institute, for Ayurveda, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Centre for Medicinal Plants Research, Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal, Kerala and Intine of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, Maharashers.

It is hoped that the current volume like the previous vuhimes will also be of interest to the herbal drug industry, pharmaceutical and Ayurvedic academic research institutes, practitioners of the Indigenous systems of medicine and health professional including regulatory authorities.

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