Abstract

INNOVATIONS AND ADVANCEMENTS IN HERBAL DRUG STANDARDIZATION

Newase T. B.*, Jadhav S. G. and Shingade M. D.

ABSTRACT

Nowadays, a lot of folks throughout world are turning to use healthful plant merchandise in tending system. Seasoner medication play a major role to take care of the human good health and to treat the ailments since the dawn of civilization. Moreover, these plants have provided several lead compounds that culminated in fashionable medicine. There's a growing concentrate on the importance of medicinal plants within the ancient health care system (viz. Ayurveda, Unani, Homoeopathy, Yoga) in determination health care problems. Systematic approach and well-designed methodologies for the standardization of herbal raw materials and herbal formulations are developed. the steadiness testing of herbal products determines the quality of seasoner merchandise that varies with the time below the influence of environmental factors, love temperature, humidity, light, oxygen, moisture, different ingredient or excipient within the indefinite quantity form, particle size of drug, microbic contamination, trace metal contamination, leach from the container, and so forth and additionally offer statistics for the determination of shelf lives. Thus analysis of the parameters based mostly upon chemical, physical, microbiological, therapeutic and materia medica studies will function a very important tool in stability studies. The varied advanced ways such as chromatographic, spectrophotometric and combination of those methods, electrophoresis, polarography, and therefore the use of molecular biomarkers in fingerprints are presently used in standardization of seasoner drugs. This text reviews the recent techniques that are utilized in herbal drug standardization thus on realize a possible and reasonable methodology of standardization.

Keywords: Herbal drugs, Standardization, Nanoherbal drugs, Phytosomes, DNA marker, Chromatographic and Spectroscopic techniques.