ABSTRACT
Phytotherapy can be defined as a treatment for preventing from exact complaint or for assistive application to a modern remedy. Encapsulation could be defined as coating a phytochemical with a suitable polymeric material. This technology is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry since the solubility and stability of a phytochemical could be increased by this technology. Controlled release properties of phytochemicals could be improved by this technique as well. Targeting the phytochemicals to the right place in a body is the main scope of encapsulation. Encapsulation also contributes for the phytotherapy practitioners to administer a phytochemical in dose-controlled manner because encapsulation provides a determined composition for a product. Deciding on the method to achieve better encapsulation is principally conditioned by the chemical constituents of the extract and the solvent used for extraction.
The current chapter discusses encapsulation methods used in phytotherapy. The comparison of encapsulation methods by telling its advantageous and disadvantageous sides was also discussed. In the present chapter, one can find the necessity of encapsulation of phytochemical(s) as well.
