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active pharmaceutical ingredients

Added section on standardization of herbal medicine products where the very concept of "active ingredient" is controversial since most phytopharmaceuticals rely upon constituent synergy for their activities. Plants with assumed active constituents like ginsenosides or hypericin may not correlate with the strength of the herbs. Many herbs are poorly characterized or while well-characterized will rely upon the synergy of otherwise week principles. Ksvaughan2 18:03, 20 April 2007 (UTC)