The book relates to the current status of herbal drugs, scope for innovations and patents, emphasizing on novelty of products with inventiveness to have effective patent to earn good revenue and unique health benefits. It includes the traditional practices, existing herbal drugs and their efficacy, clinical validation, drug delivery system, impact of geographical conditions, innovative art, strategy and international trade with patent tag, with critical review so that juvenile minds may spark for innovation. Present business scenario stress for value addition and up-gradation of existing...

Evidence based herbal drugs are on hi-acceptance day by day due to health friendly nature compared to synthetic drugs. The active ingredients in herbal drugs are different chemical classes, e.g. alkaloids, coumarins, flavonoids, glycosides, phenols, steroids, terpenes etc., are identified at molecular level using current analytical practices, which are unique characteristic, as finger, so known as fingerprints. The fingerprints are used for assessment of quality consistency and stability by visible observation and comparison of the standardized fingerprint pattern, have scientific potential...