Rooted in ancient traditions found in all corners of the world, herbal medicine can become part of a truly integrated treatment that knows no boundaries between "conventional" and "alternative" in giving people more and better choices. For centuries, people have seen relationships between plants and health and that vision is now being rediscovered. A patient-driven movement has started to resuscitate herbal medicine.

Pharmaceutical-grade herbal remedies

At the Himalaya Drug Company, we want to ensure that herbal medicine will meet consumers' expectation and will achieve its full potential, based on complete consumer confidence in safe, effective, quality products. Only a handful of companies in t he world currently apply pharmaceutical-grade standards to the development and production of herbal remedies and conduct scientific studies on their own formulas in the pre-marketing stage. Since 1930, The Himalaya Drug Company has been working very hard to generate impeccable scientific evidence and earn the trust of thousands of practitioners and millions of consumers.

"Pharmaceutical-grade herbal remedies" means consistency of quality and performance not only from batch-to-batch, but also between the clinically tested reference product and the product marketed to the consumer.

Herbal remedies are inherently heterogeneous and consist of multiple active molecules and very complex compounds that traditionally have been difficult to reproduce in assembly-line fashion. Nature is capricious, and difficulties in manufacturing abound. Expertise in pharmacognosy is needed to ensure the correct ingredients are being used. Harvested herbs can vary widely in their active constituents profile and the consistency of raw herbal material from crop to crop is hard to assure.

It is only with the systematic use of ultra sophisticated analytical methods that The Himalaya Drug Company can satisfy consistency requirements. Techniques such a chromatographic fingerprinting are widely applied to make certain that raw ingredients, intermediate blends, and finished products meet specifications for composition and potency.

The Himalaya Drug Company produced the world's first anti-hypertensive agent - a remarkable feat, not only because it was the frist drug to alleviate problems associated with high blood pressure, but also because it represented the first time in recorded history that an herbal remedy was produced using pharmaceutical processes. Ever since, the Himalaya Drug Company has demonstrated its leadership in pharmaceutical-grade herbal remedies: research and clinical studies to assess their efficacy; rigid adherence to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs); and the application of chromatographic fingerprinting techniques to ensure quality consistency.

Himalaya Herbal HealthCare® remedies have been developed by the Himalaya Drug Company of Bangalore, India since 1930.

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