India being a subcontinent encompassing extensively varying  
geographical and climatic situations is endowed with wealthy  
vegetation and fauna. The genetic assets of India`s vegetation are  
wealthy in medicinal and fragrant plants. Indian lifestyle is  
imbued with the numerous makes use of for such plants. India's main  
indigenous machine of medication Ayurveda does now no longer rule out  
any substance from getting used as a capacity supply of  
medication currently approximately one thousand unmarried pills and 8000  
compound formulations of regarded benefit are invogue.Similarly different structures of medication triumphing withinside the country  
viz; Unani, Amchi and Siddha utilise as many as 700, six hundred  
and six hundred medicinal plants, respectively. There are about  
10,000 certified pharmacies of the Indian structures of  
medicinal drug which might be engaged withinside the manufacturing of compound  
formulations. Annual natural drug manufacturing has been  
anticipated at round Rs. 2000 crores and is predicted to  
attain Rs. 4000 crores via way of means of the 12 months 2000.  
India has been constantly taken into consideration as land of spices.  
Its beyond glory as a supply of spices had attracte d  
interest from all around the world. The Indian spices even  
now parent as one of the foremost objects in India`s trade.  
The gums are plant exudates. The use of gums in  
medicinal drug, confectioneries and in printing industries has a  
lengthy records which is going hand in hand with the  
improvement of human civilization. The people have  
fascination for extraordinary colours. The herbal colorants and  
dyes are constantly in awesome call for in food, textile, cosmetic  
and leather-based industries.  
Definitions  
An attemp t is made to outline the commercial  
material/merchandise emanating from the medicinal plants  
which can be marketed.  Crude capsules  
These are normally the dried elements of the angio  
spermic medicinal flowers that shape the vital raw  
substances for the manufacturing of conventional treatments of  
Ayurvedic and Siddha, Unani, Homoeopathy, Amachi,  
Tibbetan and different device of drugs inclusive of the  
folklore, ethno or tribal drugs. The crude capsules are  
used to achieve therapeutically energetic chemical constituents,  
with the aid of using specialized approach of extraction, isolation fractionation  
and purification and are used as phytopharmaceuticals for  
the manufacturing of current allopathic drugs or herbal/  
phyto-drugs.  
Ayurveda, Unani and Sidha Medicines  
Indian conventional drugs are typically referred to  
because the Ayurvedic, Sidha and Unani drugs. Ayurvedic.  
Sidha or Unani, capsules consist of all drugs meant for  
inner or outside use for or withinside the diagnosis, treatment  
mitigation or prevention of illnesses or issues withinside the  
humans or animals.  
The Drugs and Cosmetic Act and Rules (1940)  
identified one extra magnificence of Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unani  
capsules unde r the heading of Patent and Proprietary