Abstract
As general awareness for using herbal drugs in today’s health practice is increasing, the world is endorsing extraordinary increase in the consumption of herbal products. This increase in the demand has led to consumers’ dissatisfaction due to substandard products, making the herbal market risky. There is need to set standard that will help to evaluate herbal drugs to ensure formulation of high quality products. The present investigation is conducted to evaluate the physiochemical measures of accessible mother tinctures from Aconitum napellus, Kalmia latifolia, Crataegus monogyna, Atropa belladonna and Digitalis purpurea. Mother tinctures were collected from five manufacturers in Pakistan and evaluated for physiochemical parameters, % alcohol contents, weight in dry/ml, % non-volatile matter and pH. World synchronization, following WHO specific guidelines for herbal products standardization is needed. Also, regulation should be endorsed to control herbal market adoption of WHO guideline. Key words: Herbal drugs, standardization, quality control, Aconitum napellus, Kalmia latifolia, Crataegus monogyna, Atropa Belladonna, Digitalis purpurea.
Highlights
For many eras, simpler herbal therapies and medical plants have been used in the world for the cure and improvement of various illnesses
Mother tinctures of Aconitum napellus, Kalmia latifolia, Crataegus monogyna, Atropa belladonna and Digitalis purpurea, manufactured by five homeopathic industries were collected from local distributor shops and evaluated for % Alcohol contents, weight on dry/ml, % non-volatile matter and pH using standard methodology (British Pharmacopoeia (BP), 1968)
Twenty five sample bottles of Aconitum napellus, Kalmia latifolia Crataegus monogyna, Atropa Belladonna, Digitalis purpurea mother tinctures manufactured by 5 leading homeopathic industries were collected from different location in Pakistan that is, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and physicochemical parameters % alcohol contents, weight on dry/ml, % non-volatile matter, pH were evaluated
Summary
Simpler herbal therapies and medical plants have been used in the world for the cure and improvement of various illnesses. Even though the use of medicinal plants is as ancient as mankind itself; in the early nineteenth century, their controlled use, isolation, and characterization of active substances begun. In the advancement of modern pharmacotherapy, the extractive plant isolates and isolated active substances played a vital role. Plants have important impact on health care due to the great advances observed in modern medicine in recent decades (Calixto, 2000). Each plant acts like a factory that has the ability to prepare infinite number of highly complex chemical substances (Kinghorn, 2002)
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