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Herbal Drugs: A Review on Practices

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Herbal Drugs and Fingerprints

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Herbal is always associated with different human civilizations as pain reliever, accepted reliable drugs, and regulated as per social working approach to ensure consistent composition, safety, and potency. Herbals represent a wide range of chemical compounds, and quality herbal drug indicates confirmation of its identity and authenticity for efficacy and purity. Presently, a comprehensive account of chemical constituents and biological activities is available in libraries with critical appraisal of the ethnopharmacological descriptions. In view of the recent findings about the importance of herbal drugs, the object of present description is to link our great traditional knowledge and approach to modern medical and drug trends.

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Joshi, D.D. (2012). Herbal Drugs: A Review on Practices. In: Herbal Drugs and Fingerprints. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0804-4_1

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