Manufacture of Standardized Dried Extracts from Medicinal Brazilian Plants

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article presents a brief review of the research conducted at Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Processes of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto/São Paulo University, aiming to obtain standardized dried extracts from medicinal Brazilian plants. The spray and spouted-bed dryer performance and physicochemical product properties during the drying of hydro-alcoholic extracts of three plants used in the Brazilian traditional medicine, namely, Passiflora alata, Bauhinia forficata, and Maytenus ilicifolia, are evaluated comparatively.