Medicinal & Aromatic Plants
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-0412
ISSN: 2167-0412
Eswara Das
Centre for Health Informatics- Government of India, India
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Med Aromat Plants
Homeopathy is one of health system widely practiced in almost all continents. Dr. Hahnemann, the founder of the system, introduced an unconventional approach in the preparation of the medicines and a new therapeutic principle for the treatment of the sick. Hahnemann has not written a pharmacopeia detailing the standards of preparation of homeopathic medicines, but his other works such as Organon of medicine, Chronic Diseases and Materia medica Pura gives detailed process of its preparation. Based on this, pharmacopeia is evolved in different countries as official standards for preparation of homeopathic medicines. As on now, Germany, UK, France, USA, India, Brazil, Mexico has evolved official homeopathic pharmacopeia. About 70 % of the homeopathic medicines derive from herbs. There is discrepancy in the method of collection, preservation, parts used and even in the botanical names of the herbs in different homeopathic pharmacopeia. The International Conference of Drug Regulatory Authorities (ICDRA) jointly organized by the WHO and the Government of the People��?s Republic of China on 24��?27 June, 2002 recommended harmonising the homeopathic pharmacopeias. The credibility of the medical system is based on the quality of its medicine. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of homeopathic medicines in ultrahigh dilution is a big challenge. Therefore, authoritative information on drugs and preparations, their description, formulation, analytic composition, physical constants, main chemical properties used in identification, standards for strength, purity and dosage, chemical tests for determining identity and purity of the original herb used in the preparation of homeopathic medicine is highly essential. Nomenclature of the medicines in modern scientific terminology along with the exact botanical name is also essential to identify the medicine in different countries.
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