Friday, September 2, 2011

Green Pharmacy: An Innovative Pharmaceutical Emergence

Green Pharmacy is one of the most rapidly establishing trend in context of Pharmaceutical that encompasses modern herbal medicines referred to as Phytotherapy (in greek, phytos=Plant) include fresh or dried herb or part, chopped or advanced form to establish fixed chemical parameters often called Standardized Chemical Extracts. Herbs offer the most comprehensive guide to remedies, medicine, and supplements naturally worldwide. The traditional definition of medicinal plants is given in Ashtanga Hrdaya (600 AD) Sutra Sthana as: Jagatyevam anoushadham, Nakinchit vidyate dravyam and Vashaanar thayagayoh. Herbs for ailments for at least tens of thousands of years or even more than that and are still in use due to the fact they are natural. As per the World Health Organization (WHO) reported, about 4 billion population relies on herbal medicine.

Indian manufacturers follow WHO guidelines to for quality control to comply with world standard of herbal medicine. Such a boom and growing awareness of herbs has established international market in medicinal plants which is worth more than US$60 billion per year expected to grow at the rate of 7%. The challenges, is how to integrate to comply the herbs with standards applicable. Herbal products have provided a more natural and often more effective alternative. In advanced state of research, patient applicable to herbs include renewed interest of pharmaceutical industry that should include to overcome these obstruction to meet the standards and quality sophisticated techniques available are great enhancement only thing is to integrate and cope up to standardize the preparations to enhance safety and reproducibility in a way so that the herbs in near future will totally the synthetic ones.

Read more here http://www.medvarsity.com/ejournals/18_5_08_article.html

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