Chemometrics: A new scenario in herbal drug standardization

Chemometrics: A new scenario in herbal drug standardization

Chromatography and spectroscopy techniques are the most commonly used methods in standardization of herbal medicines but the herbal system is not easy to analyze because of their complexity of chemical composition. Many cutting-edge analytical technologies have been introduced to evaluate the quality of medicinal plants and significant amount of measurement data has been produced. Chemometric t...

Innovations and Advancements in Herbal Drug Standardization: a Review

WHO has been publishing guidelines for assessment of quality of herbal raw material from time to time, however now it is emphasizing on standardization of herbal preparations. As there are different kinds of preparations available in the traditional systems, a common technique of standardization is not available. This article reviews the recent techniques that are used in herbal drug standardiz...

Application of chemometrics in authentication of herbal medicines: a review.

INTRODUCTION Herbal medicines (HM) and their preparations have been widely used for hundreds of years all over the world. However, they have not been officially recognised due to a lack of adequate or accepted research methodology for their evaluation. OBJECTIVE To present a concise overview of the recent applications of chemometrics in solving the ambiguity of herbal medicine authentication ...

Standardization of herbal medicine: A dire need today

In spite of recent developments of antibiotics and newer synthetic drugs, a vast majority of people depend on traditional medicines for their primary health care needs and it can safely presumed that a major part of traditional therapy involves the use of plant extracts or their active principle. In the recent years with ever growing commercialization in the field of herbal medicines, there has...

New Approachs in Drug Quality Control: Matrices and Chemometrics