Evidence-Based Validation of Herbal Medicine

Evidence-Based Validation of Herbal Medicines, second edition 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. This thoroughly updated new edition covers several aspects of evaluation and development of newer drugs from medicinal plants and evaluation of their therapeutic potential together with their evidence-based validation. It addresses the possible difficulties in the field of natural product research at large. It highlights various aspects of quality control parameters, safety evaluation and therapeutic efficacy. It focuses on better understanding hyphenated state-of-the-art technologies including NMR, IR, HPTLC, HPLC, UPLC, LC-MS and others. It contains the latest research from eminent scientists and researchers around the globe on several aspects of translational research on the evaluation of herbal medicine, and it serves as a useful bioprospecting tool for traditional-medicine-inspired drug discovery and development. Includes state-of-the-art methods for detecting, isolating, and performing structure elucidation by degradation and spectroscopic techniques Highlights the trends in validation and value addition of herbal medicine with different scientific approaches used in therapeuticsContains several all-new chapters on topics such as traditional-medicine-inspired drug development to treat emerging viral diseases, medicinal plants in antimicrobial resistance, TLC bio profiling, botanicals as medicinal foods, bioprospecting and bioassay-guided isolation of medicinal plants, immunomodulators from medicinal plants, and more