Sabiha Ferdowsy Koly
Department of Pharmacy, Southeast University, Tejgaon-1215, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Md. Shah Amran
Department of Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy and Public Health, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), Bashudhara, Dhaka-1229, Bangladesh.
In this post, we present a brief overview of our recently published book chapter titled “Spectroscopic Methods for Analysing Herbal Medicine and their Roles in Healthcare”
Herbal drugs are increasingly used globally, making quality control essential to ensure safety, efficacy, and consistency. Spectroscopic methods are valuable, cost-effective tools for this purpose. UV-Visible spectroscopy quantifies phenolics and flavonoids, IR spectroscopy provides chemical fingerprints for authentication, NMR enables structural elucidation and metabolite profiling, and mass spectrometry (MS), often coupled with chromatography, precisely identifies and quantifies bioactive compounds. Fluorescence spectroscopy offers sensitive detection of specific constituents and degradation products. Together, these techniques support the standardisation, potency assessment, and detection of adulterants in herbal preparations, ensuring reliable quality control in commercial production.