Herbal medicine (HM) has been playing a pivotal role in maintaining human health since
ancient times, and its therapeutic theory and clinical experience are the precious traditional …

Traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) are gaining more and more attention all over the
world, due to their specific theory and long historical clinical practice. But the uncontrollable …

As herbal medicines have an important position in health care systems worldwide, their
current assessment and quality control are a major bottleneck. Over the past decade, major …

Oral decoctions of traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) serve for therapeutic and
prophylactic management of diseases for centuries. Small molecules and polysaccharides …

Herbal medicines are becoming again more popular in the developed countries because
being “natural” and people thus often assume that they are inherently safe. Herbs have also …

Chromatography and spectroscopy techniques are the most commonly used methods in
standardization of herbal medicines but the herbal system is not easy to analyze because of …

Natural products (NPs) have a long history of clinical use and are rich source of bioactive
compounds. The development of tools and techniques for identifying and analyzing NP …

Natural products historically have been a rich source of lead molecules in drug discovery,
based on their capability to create unique and diverse chemical structures. However, it is …

Background: Ageing can be simply defined as the process of becoming older, which is
genetically determined but also environmentally modulated. With the continuous increase of …

The growing market of herbal medicines, the increase in international trade in Latvia, and
the lack of adequate analytical methods have raised the question of the potential use of …