ABSTRACT
622Plant based herbal medicines are getting consideration all over the world. The importance of herbal medicine and medicinal plants is realized globally as a source for drug discovery and development. Post genomic era offers the great opportunity to screen lot of bioactive components from the herbal medicinal plants with its various advancing technologies. Environmental changes occurring globally by the various activities of human beings due to which biodiversity of important medicinal plants are endangered and their decline from natural habitat is gaining significance for improvement, identification, analysis and conservation in the wake of sustainable development. The process of herbal drug manufacturing, standardization prescribes standards that impart safety, efficacy and consistency of herbal medicines. Hence, regulatory submission requirements for scientific data on quality, safety, and efficacy are indispensable to evaluate and permit to market an herbal drug on similar lines as synthetic, chemical moieties. In addition, global harmonization of herbal medicines combined with modern ‘omic’ technologies can facilitate enhanced support of public health and treatment of disease.
