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Botanical Sciences & Analytical Laboratory

Herb Pharm's Analytical Laboratory

Clockwise from top left:

Dr. Hellen Oketch computing herb analysis data

Preparing herb samples for HPLC analysis

HPTLC chromatograph showing consistent quality of 6 different St. John's Wort extracts

HPLC chromatograph showing consistent quality of 3 different Kava extracts

Integrating Traditional Herbal Wisdom & Modern
Botanical Sciences

Science With Wisdom
Herb Pharm continues to revere and follow the centuries-old, time-proven wisdom of traditional herbal medicine, but we integrate that wisdom with the herbal sciences of the 21st Century. In so doing, we are careful not to make the mistake made by so many herb companies of focusing on an herb’s so-called “active compound” and disregarding its many other chemical compounds, and the herb as a whole. At Herb Pharm we use precision analytical instruments to look at the herbs’ individual chemical compounds, but when making our extracts we consider the integrity of all of these compounds in order to make a full-spectrum extract that represents the whole herb.

Herb Pharm’s Botanical Sciences & Analytical Laboratory Serves Many Functions:

  1. Research on our herb farm for improving herb crops and determining optimal harvest times and herb-processing procedures.
  2. Developing and validating herb cultivation, processing and extraction methods which maintain the chemical integrity of the original herb.
  3. Serving our Quality Assurance and Sanitation Departments to assure optimal purity and quality of raw materials and finished products, batch-to-batch extract consistency, and elimination of allergens, mold and bacteria.
  4. Serving our Product Development Team in researching and developing new products and improving upon existing ones.
  5. Performing scientific research and publishing the results in scientific journals and other media for the benefit of the medical and herbal communities at large.

Analytical Instruments Used in our Botanical Sciences & Analytical Laboratory

  • High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
  • High Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography (HPTLC)
  • UV-VIS Spectrophotometry
  • ATP Sanitation Monitoring System
  • Pro-Tect Allergen Monitoring System
  • Soleris Rapid Optical Microbiological Detection System
  • Microscopy (compound & dissecting microscopes)