Plant-based traditional medicine plays a key role in the development and advancement of modern studies by serving as a starting point for the development of novelties in drug discovery. Various modern drugs were extracted from traditional medicinal plants through the use of plant material following the ethno botanical leads from indigenous cures used by traditional medical systems. In developing countries and rural societies, the use of medicinal plants is both a valuable resource and necessity, and furthermore, it provides a real alternative for primary healthcare systems.

Plant extraction is a process that aims to extract certain components present in plants. It is a solid/liquid separation operation: a solid object (the plant) is placed in contact with a fluid (the solvent). The plant components of interest are then solubilised and contained within the solvent. The solution thus obtained is the desired extract.

Nature has bestowed our country with an enormous wealth of medicinal plants; therefore India has often been referred to as the Medicinal Garden of the world. Today, people around the globe are giving preference to alternative medicines such as ayurveda, naturopathy, homeopathy and herbal medicine. Herbal medicine is cost effective and less expensive than the medicines bought from an allopathic pharmacy.

Increasing realization of the side effects of allopathic medicines, coupled with the growing awareness about the medicinal benefits as well as therapeutic effect of herbal products is pushing up the demand for herbal extracts, dietary supplement sand herbal-based beauty aids worldwide. Herbal extraction and processing is very vast field. Some of the known projects are, rose plantation, cultivation & rose oil extraction plantation, cultivation of medicinal plant & herbs, Kali mahendi (henna), aloevera gel, aloevera gel & powder, aromatic plants cultivation & processing, asparagus cultivation & processing, ayurvedic churan & tablets, ayurvedic raw material from mercury a-singruph (hingula) or cinnabar (hgs), b-ras sindhoor, ayurvedic/herbal pharmacy, cough syrup, hair dyes (hinna based), herbal natural essential oil (steam distillation process), herbal shampoo & cream, herbal concentrate in the mfg. Of herbal drugs & concentrate, herbal extracts, herbal medicinal plant & processing, herbs cultivation & processing, herbs cultivation & processing, menthol crystal from menthol oil, patchouli oil, plantation, cultivation of medicinal plant & herbs, sindur roli bindi & gulal, tobacco based tooth powder, toilet & herbal soap, herbal capsules, herbal face paste, rajnigandha oil, amla cultivation, plantation, amla hair oil based on vegetable oil, aloe vera processing, artemisia vulgaris oil, aloevera gel, juice and powder, ayurvedic hair oil for colouring of hair oil, herbal wine, mehandi cone, hibiscus cultivation, herbal beer, azadirachtin from neem, neem based pesticide, moringa -miracle tree, etc.

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