Quality Control of Herbal Medicines- The Need of Time

 

Quality is of prime concern to human beings in all aspects of life. Due to the stringency in the regulations, the quality of the synthetically manufactured pharmaceuticals is maintained up to the mark which assures both safety and efficacy of the pharmaceutical products.

Herbal preparations are made from one or more herbs. If more than one herb is used, the term mixed herbal product is used. Finished herbal products and mixed herbal products may contain excipients in addition to the active ingredients. In some countries, herbal medicines may contain, by tradition, natural organic or inorganic active ingredients that are not of plant origin Most herbal product labels cannot fully reveal the contents of a container. Study reveals less than 50% chances of actually achieve the label claim.

Quality control and standardization of herbal products depends on various factors like age/ part of plant collected, temperature, sunlight, time of collection, drying process, storage etc., which ultimately affecting the quality and therapeutic value of product.

Need for quality control of herbal medicines

}  Herbal remedies are being used throughout developed and developing countries and represents a substantial proportion of the global drug market and show high demand internationally.

}  Lack of technical documentation and Lack of specific process for manufacturing of their formulations

}  Lack of approaches in development of modernized dosage forms.

}  Lack of Routine quality control methods for finished preparation and are required to establish internationally recognized guidelines for assessing their quality.

}  Several reports on incident of toxicity and adverse effects link to plants and their formulations are available alongwith the toxicity of trace metals on human health and environments.

The process where the qualitative and quantitative values of herbs are measured against the prescribed or set standards and parameters is known as standardization and is done for the raw material, process and of the finished products.





Dr. Sanjay Jain

Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy




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