Quality Control and Evaluation of Herbal Drugs: Evaluating Natural Products and Traditional Medicine By Pulok K Mukherjee

Quality Control and Evaluation of Herbal Drugs brings together current thinking and practices for evaluation of natural products and traditional medicines The use of herbal medicine in therapeutics is on the rise in both developed and developing countries and this book facilitates the necessary development of quality standards for these medicines. This book elucidates on various challenges and opportunities for quality evaluation of herbal drugs with several integrated approaches including metabolomics chemoprofiling marker analysis stability testing good practices for manufacturing clinical aspects Ethnopharmacology and Ethnomedicine inspired drug development Written by Prof Pulok K Mukherjee a leader in this field the book highlights on various methods techniques and approaches for evaluating the purity quality safety and efficacy of herbal drugs Particular attention is paid to methods that assess these drugs 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 and other Asian countries as well as the regulatory profiles of the European Union and North America This book will be useful in bio prospecting of natural products and traditional medicine inspired drug discovery and development Quality Control and Evaluation of Herbal Drugs Evaluating Natural Products and Traditional Medicine.