Guidelines for the Chemical and Biological Assessment of Herbals and Herbal Preparations

摘要

Medicinal plants and parts thereof represent a primary source of products for the pharmaceutical field. Greater and greater amounts of medicinal plants are used by the pharmaceutical industry for the production of high content standardized extracts, of chemically pure active constituents and of intermediates for the semi-synthesis of rare natural products or of new active compounds. The purpose of the document is just to suggest a whole of controls which allow the standardization of vegetable drugs, of vegetable drug preparations and of formulated herbal preparation.