Ayurvedic and Herbal Testing

In this time, demand for herbal testing is increasing day by day. Traditional systems of medicine like the Ayurveda, Unani, Homeopathy and Siddha, centered on herbal medicines have maintained to be the cornerstones of healthcare system in India, and now, the whole world is getting attracted to the power of these medical systems. The world is slowly beginning to realize the potential of these systems in providing low cost health care to the society and the ability to cure and provide treatment for various diseases, which are considered incurable in the modern medicine system.

In past, it was found out that one out of five Ayurvedic Herbal Medicine products, which originated from South Asia was adulterated with toxic heavy metals, and was considered to be unhealthy for consumption. This created an immediate need for finding a suitable testing laboratory and method for the various herbal food and medicine manufacturing companies. Out of all the confusion caused in finding a perfect and suitable technique, a technique rose as the supreme standard technique as it provided highest of all metals, and if a sample was utilizing this method, and it passed, it will also pass all the other tests thrown at it. This combination utilized a microwave digestion system for the sample preparation and conduction sample analysis using an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer.

Herbal Medicines have a characteristic of being pure and free of any kind of side effects and harmful chemicals. When the consumers moveto herbal medicines such as the Unani, Siddha, Ayurvedic or traditional Chinese medicine, they are expecting something, which is natural and free from all kind of side effects.

India has always had a strong traditional and heritage of utilizing traditional medication techniques for treatment of both day to day as well as chronic ailments. All of us greatly believe in and trust the herbal medicines such as Siddha, Unanai, Homeopathy and Ayurveda systems. With advancement in manufacturing and quality control of herbal medicines, quality of the products have improved significantly, and today it is par with most of the modern system medicines. However, despite of such advancements, it is common to find traditional herbal medicines contaminated with along with modern medicines, often higher than the recommended doses. Regular consumption of contaminated herbal medicines can cause serious irreversible side effects.

We perform herbal products testing including testing of excipients, raw materials and finished single herbs along with poly herbal formulations. We carry out tests like pesticides residues, microbiological testing, heavy metals, aflatoxins and other mycotoxins, physicochemical testing, non-genetically modifies organism certification and chromatographic fingerprinting as part of our offered herbal testing services. Backed up with out great and technically advanced laboratories, we have helped several number of our clients successfully in developing, validating and implementing quality control parameters for their sophisticated and complex herbal products. This has greatly enhanced their ability to market their products, not only domestically, but also internationally.

Chromatographic fingerprinting techniques plays a important and vital role in the process of standardization of herbal products. They are widely used for the confirmation of presence of different herbs in the poly herbal formulations and the quantity of marker compounds. While HPLC and GC are widely utilized for chromatographic fingerprinting, HPTLC is the forerunner for chromatographic fingerprinting of poly herbal formulations and single log. Chromatographic fingerprinting is utilized for establishing the quality as well as the identity of single herbs, which are to be added in the herbal formulation. Nowadays, chromatographic fingerprinting is utilized in different in two different stages during the manufacturing of an herbal formulation. First fingerprinting is performed out for each and every herb that is being added to the herbal formulation. This process is used for recognizing the herb and can be used to simultaneously quantify the major active components present inside the herb. Once the purity and identity of the herb is established and recognized, all of the herbs are incorporated to produce the final poly herbal formulation.