Review on standardization of herbal churna

Abstract

In the last some years, the use of herbal drugs has been increased all over the world due to their huge therapeutic effect and less adverse effects as compared to other medicines. The rising use of herbal drug by the human is forcing the driving force to evaluate the health claim of these agents and to develop standards of quality, purity, safety and efficacy of the drug. Mostly herbal drugs are effective but due to adulteration and lack of standardization, the effectiveness of the herbal drug is decreased. So there is need of development of standardization parameters. In the standardization of the herbal drug the physical, chemical, biological, analytical parameters are carried out. It assures the quality, purity and safety of herbal drug.