CURRENT SCENARIOOF PHARMACEUTICAL & HERBAL MEDICINES & FUTURE PROSPECTUS WORLD WIDE:AN OVERVIEW

Plants are knowingly or unknowingly helping the living beings since the beginning of civilization.Although new and new diseases are getting discovered day by day, creator had provided us with most of the cure in the form of medicinal plants. Herbs as a raw material.India is the country of herbs, and the Indian traditional treatment system was also based on herbs and medicinal plant that is known as Ayurveda. India is the well-known mine of well-recorded herbal plants with their medicinal Use. Herbal medicine is also called botanical medicines or phytomedicine. Herb are extract from natural origin which is derived from algae fungi and linches and higher pants such as leaves stem fruit flower seeds and roots etc. Herbal drug Industry is undergoing a major change with respect to domestic and global requirements.Herbal medicine and treatment with herbs are not new to humanity, and it has been in practice since thousands of years back and still going on. Nutraceuticals is the fastest growing herbal components due to increase in day to day lifestyle concern among global population. Along with the increased global and domestic essentiality of evidence based reports on safety, efficacy and kinetics of herbal products, scientific technicality and involvement of trained human resource should be promoted in the site of herbal drug Manufacturing. This review focuses on the recent various important challenges in quality evaluation of medicinal plants in the authenticity, efficacy,Toxicity and consistency.In a survey report of the world Health Organization, it was found that the 80% population of the world rely on traditional herbal medicine for primary health-care need. Keywords: Folk medicines, chronic disease, medicines Herbal Technology, Herbal drugs, Herbs, AYUSH, Herbal drug, Nutraceuticals , Drug industry