Pharmacognostic Methods for Analysis of Herbal Drugs, According to European Pharmacopoeia
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At the present time, according with the WHO reports, about 80 % of the world’s population use herbal medicines for some aspects of their primary health care. This phenomena is in relationship with a rapidly expanding of the phytopharmaceutical industry and market, especialy for dietary supplements. Unfortunately, these supplements are insufficiently studied and have a low quality. For this reason, today, the tendency is to militate for to decrease the number of supplements and to increase the number of herbal medicinal products, which are more rigorously analyzed before marketing authorization and after that, according to European Medicines Agency guidelines.
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Pharmacognostic Methods for Analysis of Herbal Drugs, According to European Pharmacopoeia
At the present time, according with the WHO reports, about 80 % of the world’s population use herbal medicines for some aspects of their primary health care. This phenomena is in relationship with a rapidly expanding of the phytopharmaceutical industry and market, especialy for dietary supplements. Unfortunately, these supplements are insufficiently studied and have a low quality. For this reas...
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