Pure and Natural Herbal Medicines and Essential Oils: Authentication and Detection of Adulteration and Contamination
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2020) | Viewed by 3977
Special Issue Editor
Interests: natural product drug discovery; phytochemistry; essential oils; chemical ecology; molecular modeling
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Dear Colleagues,
Adulteration of herbal medicines and essential oils has become a serious problem. As the prices of these products increase, unscrupulous dealers are increasing their profits by diluting samples with inactive additives; augmenting “pure” samples with cheaper substitutes; adding synthetic or semisynthetic components; or adding contaminants such as pesticides, microbial metabolites, or heavy metals. In addition to misleading the consumer, contaminated or adulterated herbal medicines and essential oils can also cause adverse health effects. In this Special Issue, we invite original research articles and timely reviews on the adulteration and/or contamination of herbal medicines or essential oils and may include but are not limited to the detection of adulterants/contaminants, the adverse influence on the efficacy or aroma profiles of herbal medicines or essential oils, or possible toxic effects of adulterants/contaminants.
Prof. Dr. William Setzer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Herbal medicines
- Essential oils
- Adulteration
- Contamination
- Synthetic markers
- Semisynthetic adulterants
- Analysis
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