Affiliation:
1. Pravara Rural College of Pharmacy, Pravaranagar.
Abstract
The aim of the review is to discuss the Herbal drug technology. Herbal drug technology is a tool for converting botanical materials into therapeutically useful products and medicines. Today, herbal products obtained by integrating modern scientific techniques and traditional knowledge are gaining in-creased applications in drug discovery and development and there is increasing global demand for herbal drugs. Herbal medicines are widely used in all over world. Herbal drug shows more therapeutic effect and less side effects. Lots of population are preferred the herbal medicine. Here we present the outline of the quality control, different pharmacological action of various drugs. It also highlights on recent development in herbal drug. This review state that the herbal medicine having more therapeutic effectiveness. The study also shows that their regulatory status according to country to country. This review provide support and guide the researcher in recent development of herbal drug technology.
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