Vol. 7, Issue 1, Part A (2025)

The plants are the key source of medicine in Ayurveda for treatment and prevention of diseases and maintenance of healthy life. The plants are used in medicine since antiquity. Much of the medicinal plants are documented in the Ancient Ayurvedic classics and these plants are still used successfully to treat different ailments. One of these plants which is used to treat various disease is Decalepis Hamiltonii leaves. WHO notes that of 119 plantderived pharmaceutical medicines, about 74% are used in modern medicine in ways that correlated directly with their traditional uses as plant medicines by native cultures? Major pharmaceutical companies are currently conducting extensive research on plant materials gathered from the rain forests and other places for their potential medicinal value. In the 20th century much of the pharmacopoeia of scientific medicine was derived from the herbal lore of native peoples. Many drugs commonly used today are of herbal origin. About 25% of the prescription drugs dispensed in the United States contain at least one active ingredient derived from plant material. Some are made from plant extracts; others are synthesized to mimic a natural plant compound. It was an integral part of the development of modern civilization. Standardization” of herbal drugs is not an easy task as numerous factors influence the bio efficacy and reproducible therapeutic effect. In order to obtain quality oriented herbal products, care should be taken right from the proper identification of plants, season and area of collection, their extraction, purification process and rationalizing the combination in case of polyherbal drugs. Standardization means adjusting the herbal drugs preparation to a define content of a constituent or a group of substances with known therapeutically activity respectively by adding excipients or by mixing herbal drugs or herbal drug preparation.Evaluation” of a drug means confirmation of its identity and determination of its quality and purity and detection of its nature of adulteration.