ABSTRACT
The Medicinal Plants Division of the Indian Council of Medical Research has brought out thirteen volumes in a series of publications entitled Reviews on Indian Medicinal Plants consolidating multidisciplinary scientific published research work on about 3679 medicinal plants species. The global resurgence of interest in medicinal plants has resulted in enormous scientific research/information on multidisciplinary aspects in the past several decades. The focus of the programme is to consolidate the work done in various institutions/ laboratories in India on Indian medicinal plants and presents the multidisciplinary information in the form of Review Monographs. The programme aims at generation of Phytochemical Reference Standards (PRS), for some frequently used Indian medicinal plants. Under this programme, simple procedures of isolation of PRS have been optimized by making appropriate modifications in the reported procedures. Special emphasis has been laid on the complete characterization of the purified PRS by recording the physical and spectral data.
