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safety and reproducibility) of herbal
        medicines.

• Complex nature of phytochemicals, which are responsible for

  holistic pharmacological response

• Active principle(s) is generally unknown/uncertainty

  of active principle(s)

• Absence of a wide range of major-minor compounds
• Shortage of standard fingerprints of phytochemicals to

  record/analyse efficacy within different batches
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