Standardization of Botanicals Volume - 1 (Second Edition)

Today most extracts are chemically poorly characterized with unidentified active constituents, stability issues and erratic quality profile. To obtain biologically reproducible results in terms of safety and efficacy, the active ingredients must be the same, must be stable and devoid of unpredictable toxicity or side effects.
There is however, a lack of uniform industry standards for the testing of materials. Some organizations in various parts of the world are working on developing such testing and standardization norms but the work is far from over and as yet no statutory sanction has been provided by any country on such methods, i.e no official herbal pharmacopoeia exists anywhere providing approved and validated testing methods with reference standards, that have official seal of approval.
This book is an attempt to provide, not only the quantitative testing methods but also chemical constituents, extraction processes, specifications of various extracts, therapeutic functions, dosage, pharmacological properties, toxicity/safety aspects and references. This book contains twenty five widely used medicinal herbs.
While there are some books available on identification, description, pharmacological action, safety aspects etc. of medicinal herbs, very few books can be found on quantitative testing of medicinal herbs. This book fills that gap in knowledge with detailed, ready to use and validated methods of analysis to be performed in a quality control laboratory. This book will be welcomed by all those who are concerned about the standardization of botanicals as it provides analytical procedures for extracts as well as phytochemicals.

AUTHOR: Dr. V. Rajpal
ISBN: 9788190646758 
YEAR: 2011 
PAGES: 286
BINDING: Hard
LANGUAGE: English