Plant Juices and Related Medicinal Preparations: Issues of Standardization and Quality Control

Abstract

The potential of using juices to produce medicinal preparations is demonstrated. The current market conditions for medicinal preparations prepared from juices of fresh medicinal plant raw material are characterized. The urgency to develop draft General Pharmacopoeial Monographs “Juices” and “Determination of juice content in fresh medicinal plant raw material” is emphasized. Quality indicators characteristic of the “Juice” dosage form are formulated. Four methods for determining the juice content in fresh medicinal plant raw material used to produce juice are proposed and include two methods for determining juice in raw material for allopathic medicines and two methods applicable to production of homeopathic matrix tinctures.