Herbal drug industry (unit 5)

Prepared By:
MOHAMMAD KHALID
(Assistant Professor)
Krishna Pharmacy College, Bijnor (UP)

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Herbs, Herbal Drugs
Present Scope of Herbal Drug Industry
Scope of Herbal Drug Medicine and Industry
Indian Herbal Industry
International Scope of Herbal Medicines
World Wide Herbal Trade
Overview on plant based industries and research institutions in India
List of few herbal drug industries in India
List of few herbal research institution/ centres in India
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Herbs
 Botanical definition: A herb is a non-woody, seed
producing plant that dies to the ground at end of the
growing season.
 Culinary definition: Herbs are vegetable products
that are used to as add flavor or aroma to food.
 Medicinal definition: Herbs are crude drug of
vegetable origin that are used in the treatment of
disease state, often of a chronic nature, or to attain
or maintain a condition of improved health.

Herbal Drugs
 Definition:
This category includes vitamins, minerals and
nutrients or ingredients isolated from plant.
These have physiological benefits and reduce
the risk of chronic disease.
 Advantage:
They are non-toxic.
They have almost no reported side effects.
They are easily available.
The price are affordable.

Present Scope of Herbal Drug Industry
Worldwide there is a growing demand for Ayurveda and other
traditional forms of medicine.
In India, about 80% of the rural population uses medicinal herbs or
indigenous systems of medicine.
Herbs have been known since the era of civilization and are highly
esteemed all over the world as a rich source of medicinal agents.
The popularity of natural products is increasing day by day due to
the facts that they are comparatively safe, less toxic, less side
effects, easily available and affordable prices when compared to
synthetic drugs.
The herbal drug industry is a very fast growing sector in the
international market. In India, various system of medicine like
Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Homeopathy, Yoga & Naturopathy are
being utilized for the Health care of people.

• Recently there has been a shift in universal trend from synthetic
to herbal medicine, which we can say ‘Return to Nature’
• Medicinal plants have been known for millennia & highly
esteemed all over the world as a rich source of medicinal
agents.
• In our country, there are so many plants available, therefore India
known as ‘Medicinal Garden of World’.
• In India, system of medicine like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani,
homeopathy, Yoga & Naturopathy are being utilized for the
health care of people.
• one reason for popularity of natural products is that belief that all
are safe, non –toxic, less side effect, easily affordable prices.
• In international market now a days, herbal drug industry is very
fast growing sector.
• India has not done well in this international trade of herbal
products in market.
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Scope of Herbal Drug Medicine and Industry
Turnover of the industry is more than Rs 80 billion. Herbal
exports include medicines of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha,
and homoeopathy) products, which occupy a share of 3% of total
Indian pharmaceutical export.
More than 70% of India’s 1.1 billion populations still use these
non-allopathic system of medicine.
Currently there is no separate category of herbal drugs or dietary
supplements, as per the Indian Drugs Act.
However, there is a vast experiential-evidence base for many of
the natural drugs.
The ‘Herbal Industry’ has reveled that currently, the Indian herbal
market size is estimated at 7000 crore & over 3600 crore of herbal
raw materials & medicine are exported by India.

Indian Herbal Industry
As per Associated chamber of Commerce & Industry
(ASSOCHAM), the herbal drug & its application become
very popular across the world.
In India, about 25,000 licensed pharmacy are working.
Presently 1000 single drugs & about 3000 compound
formulations are registered.
In india, about 8000 medicinal plants are used.
Non of them have a standerd marker & animal for their
bioactivity.
From abt 8000 manufaturares , 25 mfgs large scale mfgs.
The annual turnover is around US $ 300 million in Ayurvedic
& Unani medicine was about US $ 27.7 million.
In 1998- 1999 again went up to US $ 31.4 million.

International Scope of Herbal Medicines
According to the world Health Organization(WHO),
approximately 25 per cent of modern drugs used in the United
State(US) have been derived from plants.
More than 120 active compounds isolated from higher plants
are widely used in modern allopathic medicine today and 80%
of them show a positive co-relation between their modern
therapeutic use and the traditional use of the plants from which
they are derived.
At least 7000 medicinal compounds derived from plants, the
ingredients of herbal medicine, are include in the modern
pharmacopoeia of drugs.

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WHO estimated that 80 per cent of the world’s population
currently use Herbal Medicine for same aspects of
primary health care.
They are also highly lucrative in the international market,
generating billions of dollars in revenue.
To cite a few examples, annual revenue from herbal
medicines and herbal products in Western Europe
reached US $ 5 billion in 2003-2004.
In China, sales of herbal products totalled US $ 14 billion
in 2005.
Herbal medicine revenue in Brazil was US $ 160 million
in 2007.

World Wide Herbal Trade
Global market for herbal product stands at over $
60 billion annually…now it is 6.5% increased.
Significant factor:
1) Preference of consumers for natural therapy
2) Concern regarding undesirable side effects of
modern disease.
3) the belief that herbal medicines are free from
side effect.
Its effective in certain disease, less in cost

According to WHO market value per year
 Country (1991) : Market value
US : $ 43 billion
EU : $ 6 billion
Germany : $ 3 billion
France : $1.6 billion
Italy : $ 0.6 billion
others : $ 0.8 billion

Country (1996) : Market value
•US : $ 4 billion
•EU : $ 10 billion
•India : $ 1 billion
•others : $ 5 billion
Country (1997) : Market value
•EU : $ 7 billion
•Germany : $ 3.5 billion
•France : $1.8 billion
•Italy : $ 700 million
•UK : $ 400 million
•Spain : $ 300 million
•Netherlands: $ 100 million

Future Prospects of Herbal
medicine/industry
Scope of
Herbal
Medicine
Phytochemistry
Genetic
Engineering
Plant
Biotechnology
Molecular
Biology
New Leads
Modern Herbal
Formulation

Herbal medicine-based Traditional Medical system of
treatment is a rapidly growing healthcare system of economic
importance and is now widely used in many countries of the
world. The following leads and development are the future
prospects in the herbal drug industry.
Plant products can also be useful as starting material for the
semi synthetic preparation of other drugs.
Examples:
Plant Steroids (Diosgenin): Oral contraceptives, harmones
Microorganisms (Streptomyces genus): Antibiotics
(Streptomycin, neomycin, tetracycline, chloromphenicol)
The interest in natural products as a source of new biologically
active compounds has expanded due to increasing research
and development in phytochemistry.

 Natural products will continue to be important in the
following three areas of drug discovery.
As targets for production by biotechnology.
As a source of new lead compounds of novel
chemical structure
As the active ingredients for useful treatments
derived from traditional system of medicine.

Overview on plant based industries and research institutions in
India
List of research institutions and centres in India
Government of India also has expressed support and
encouragement for the Traditional Indian Medicine(TIM).
A separate department for Indian Systems of Medicine and
Homeopathy now known as AYUSH(Ayurveda, Yoga,
Unani, Siddha, Homoeopathy) was established in march
1995 to promote indigenous system.
Priorities include education, standardization of drugs,
enhancement of availability of raw materials, research and
development, information, communication and larger
involvement in the national system for delivering health
care.

List of few herbal drug industries in India
Name City
Ansar Drug Laboratories Surat (Gujrat)
Acis Laboratories Kanpur (UP)
Allen Laboratories Pvt. Ltd Kolkata (WB)
Basic Ayurveda Ghaziabad (UP)
Dabur India Ltd Ghaziabad (UP)
Herbals (APS) Pvt. Ltd Patna
Herbo-Med (Pvt. Ltd) Kolkata
The Himalaya Drug Co. Mumbai
Shilpachem Indore
Hamdard (Wakf) Laboratories Delhi

Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Ltd Mumbai
Shhri Baidyanath Ayurved Bhavan Patna
Charak Pharmaceuticals Mumbai
Cipla Research Centre & Factory Bengaluru
Government Quinine Factory Mungpoo
Vico Laboratories Nagpur
Nagarjuna Herbal Concentrates Kerala
Shree Dhootapapeshwar Ltd Mumbai
Sandu Pharmaceutical Ltd Goa
Patanjali Ayurved Haridwar (Uttarakhand)
Sri Sri Ayurveda Bangaluru
Biocon India Pvt. Ltd Bangaluru

List of few herbal research institution/centres in India

references
Niharika Sahoo and Padma"vati Manchikanti, “Herbal Drug
Regulation and Commercialization: An Indian Industry Perspective”,
THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY
MEDICINE, Volume 19, Number 12, 2013, pp. 957–963
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prospects. A brief account of plant based industries and institutions
involved in work on medicinal and aromatic plants in India.”
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