Standardization of Botanicals Volume - 1 (Second Edition)

Today most extracts are chemically poorly characterized with unidentified active constituents, stability issues and erratic quality profile. To obtain biologically reproducible results in terms of safety and efficacy, the active ingredients must be the same, must be stable and devoid of unpredictable toxicity or side effects.There is however, a lack of uniform industry standards for the testing of materials. Some organizations in various parts of the world are working on developing such testing and standardization norms but the work is far from over and as yet no statutory sanction has been provided by any country on such methods, i.e no official herbal pharmacopoeia exists anywhere providing approved and validated testing methods with reference standards, that have official seal of approval.This book is an attempt to provide, not only the quantitative testing methods but also chemical constituents, extraction processes, specifications of various extracts, therapeutic functions, dosage