European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

ADVANCED HERBAL TECHNOLOGY

Vivek Bhoir*, Prathmesh Wagh, Shraddha Wagh, Aditi Kute, Kavita Handge and Snehal Kurhade

ABSTRACT

Recently people are getting attracted towards herbal medicines due to many advantages. Herbal formulations have reached extensive acceptability as therapeutic agents for several diseases. Although most of these applications are unorthodox, it is however a known fact that over 80% of the world population depends on herbal medicines and products for healthy living. This is a development in the use of herbal product has again given height to various forms of misuse and impurity of the products leading to consumers’ and manufacturers’ dissatisfaction and in some instances fatal effects. The numerous convectional approaches and more recent advancements are covered in the current review article. Recent developments have been noted in areas such as DNA fingerprinting, metabolomics, differential pulse polarography, chemometrics, X-ray diffraction, etc. Contributions of chromatographic and capillary electrophoresis techniques to the standardisation of herbal medicines are also reported.

Keywords: Standardization, Herbal Drug, DNA Fingerprinting, Chromatographic Techniques.