Improving Quality of Research on Herbals and its Reporting

Having been involved in research on herbals and reviewing documentation of the same for all most two decades has been a great learning experience. It is befitting the grandeur of Ayurveda that more informative and meaningful research on herbals takes place. The term “herbals” used here is most commonly adopted in India involving any scientific work on botanicals/medicinal plants and its parts/herbs/processed herbs and formulations/products made using the “herbals” as ingredients. The origin or basis of selection of the herbals for research could be those that grow near or around the areas of the investigators and/or those that are known in cultural usage/grandmother remedies and/or those that are documented in traditional authoritative text of Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha or even traditional Chinese medicine and similar traditional knowledge of Asian origin. Often one also finds studies on herbals of South African origin or Western nations