Full Description
Evidence-Based Validation of Herbal Medicines brings together current thinking and practice in the areas of characterization and validation of natural products. This book reviews all aspects of evaluation and development of medicines from plant sources, including their cultivation, collection, phytochemical and phyto-pharmacological evaluation, and therapeutic potential. Emphasis is placed on describing the full range of evidence-based analytical and bio-analytical techniques used to characterize natural products, including -omic technologies, phyto-chemical analysis, hyphenated techniques, and many more.
Contents
1. Quality related safety issues - Evidence based validation of herbal medicine farm to pharma
2. Value Chains of Herbal Medicines - Ethnopharmacological and analytical challenges in a globalizing world
3. Pharmacopoeial Standards as the Basis of Herbal Medicine Quality Control
4. Taxonomy - tool for validation of herbal medicine
5. Validation of medicinal herbs for skin ageing
6. Pro-angiogenic potential of medicinal plants in wound healing
7. Pharmacovigilance: Tool in establishing the safety and acceptability of the natural health products - Clinical evaluation
8. Validation of antiviral potential of herbal ethomedicine
9. Harmonization of regulatory requirements in Europe to ensure quality, safety and efficacy of herbal medicinal products
10. Bioavailability of herbal medicine: approach towards improved pharmacokinetics
11. Good quality and clinical practices for the future development of herbal medicines
12. Evidence based scientific claims for traditional medicine-inspired approaches to drug discovery from Ayurveda
13. Evaluation of bioactive compounds as AChE inhibitors from medicinal plants
14. Drugs and drug leads based on natural products for treatment of malaria
15. Evaluation of Natural products against Biofilm mediated bacterial resistance
16. Clinical effects of caraway, a traditional medicine for weight loss
17. Challenges in identification of potential phytotherapies and contemporary biomedical literatures
18. Botanicals as medicinal foods and their effects against obesity
19. Application of HPLC in the analysis of herbal products
20. Ayurveda opportunities for developing safe and effective treatment choices for the future
21. Discovery and development of lead compounds from natural sources using computational approaches
22. Infrared Spectroscopic Technologies for the Quality Control of Herbal Medicines
23. Antimicrobial secondary metabolites- extraction, isolation, identification and bio assay
24. Use of herbals in cardiac diseases: priority of evidence over belief
