Medicinal plants constitute an effective source of traditional (e.g. ayurvedic, chinese, homeopathy and unani) and modern medicine.
Herbal medicine has been shown to have genuine utility
Herbal adulteration is one of the common malpractices in herbal raw-material trade.
Adulteration is described as intentional substitution with another plant species or intentional addition of a foreign substance to increase the weight or potency of the product or to decrease its cost
Adulteration is considered as an intentional pratice
Unintentional adulterations also exist in herbal raw-material trade due to various reasons, and many of them are unknown even to the scientific community
Adulteration is defined as substituting original crude drug partially or wholly with other similar-looking substances
The substance, which is mixed, is free from or inferior in chemical and therapeutic property
