Herbals and herbal products are in use in worldwide as home remedies, over the counter preparations and as raw material in pharmaceutical industry. Globally, the herbal medicines market is growing very fast, so there is need of increasing attention to maintain the quality of herbals before recommendation of it as raw material to pharma industry or home remedy, for sustainability of herbals as drug. The herbal drugs needs to be defined in term of modern medical practices also. The book has been prepared in response to the need of international harmonization to produce and supply the quality herbals, value addition on it, characterization, standardization, developing chemical finger prints, analytical and manufacturing validation as well as their utilization for different purposes. The book also describes the art of implementation of academic research as industrial herbal product. Covered areas are: Herbal Drugs; Value addition; Standardization; Chromatographic finger prints; Generation of specification; Manufacturing process validation; Analytical validation; Industrial implementation of research work. Written for: Academic research labs in the field of Herbal Drugs, Phytochemicals, Herbalists, Naturopaths, Pharmacy, Biotechnology, Medicinal Plants Industry and Pharmaceutical Industry as well as of academic interest, both graduation and post graduation level.
