Quality Control and Evaluation of Herbal Drugs: Approaches for Evaluating Natural Products and Traditional Medicine

Quality Control and Evaluation of Herbal Drugs: Approaches for Evaluating Natural Products and Traditional Medicine brings together current thinking and practice in the quality control and standardization of herbal drugs. As the use of herbal medicine in therapeutics is rising in both developed and developing countries, this book facilitates the development of quality standards for these medicines. Written by Pulok K. Mukherjee, a leader in the field, the book describes methods, techniques and approaches for evaluating their purity, quality, safety and efficacy. Particular attention is paid to methods that assess activity, the compounds responsible, and their underlying mechanisms of action. The book describes the quality control parameters followed in India and other countries, including Japan, China, Bangladesh, Srilanka and other Asian countries, as well as the regulatory profiles of the European Union and North America. Users will find it to be a comprehensive resource on bio-prospecting for traditional-medicine-inspired drug discovery and development. Provides new information on the research and development of natural remediesIncludes essential reading on the study and use of natural resources for preventative or healing purposesReferences global organizations, such as the WHO, USFDA, CDSCO, TCM and others to serve as a comprehensive document for enforcement agencies, NGOS and regulatory authorities Aids in developing basic knowledge of the various techniques of quality evaluation, such as macroscopy, microscopy, HPTLC, HPLC and LC-MS INDICE: 1. Traditional systems of medicine2. Toxicity and safety evaluation of herbal medicine3. Ethnopharmacology and ethnobotany4. Challenges in quality evaluation of herbal medicine5. Factors relating quality of herbs6. Morphological evaluations7. Parameters for quality evaluation of herbal drugs8. Classification of bioactive phytocomponents and their analysis9. Methods for extraction of herbs10. Thin layer chromatography in evaluation of herbal drugs11. High performance thin layer chromatography for quality evaluation of herbs12. High performance liquid chromatography for analysis of herbs13. Marker analysis - tool for evaluation of herbal medicine14. Metabolomic approach for evaluation of herbal medicine15. Development and quality evaluation of novel herbal formulation16. Phytopharmacological evaluation of herbal drugs17. Good quality practices for development of herbal medicine18. Stability testing and quality assurance of herbs19. Quality evaluation profiles of some medicinal plants

• ISBN: 978-0-12-813374-3
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 700
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés