| Your expert in phytomedicine |
Over the past few decades, modern science has started to explore what has been known to our
ancestors for thousands of years: that the plant world provides mankind with a treasure house of natural remedies
for prevention and treatment of many ailments and diseases.
Pharmaton's mission
Selecting medicinal plants, developing standardised extracts from them and converting them into
high-quality phytopharmaceuticals is the mission of Pharmaton SA. Today's consumers are increasingly aware and knowledgeable.
They demand safety and efficacy. Pharmaton guarantees these qualities with standardised processes.
We combine the power of nature and the ancient wisdom of popular, traditional medicine and apply the most modern
research standards and scientific methods to produce premium phytopharmaceuticals. The source of the botanical raw
materials, the methods of extraction and standardisation used, the
processing and rigorous quality controls applied from the vegetable raw material throughout the entire production
process to the finished products, all help guarantee the quality, efficacy and safety of
Pharmaton Natural Health
Products.
Nature is variable
Nature has an inherent variability depending on seasons, climate, regions, quality of the soil, and other
factors. To be able to offer reliable products with reproducible characteristics of quality, efficacy and safety, Pharmaton
has been developing and applying quality strategies for coping with these "short-comings" of nature while preserving the
bounty and richness of the natural world and the therapeutic use of the herbal extracts.
Quality of the raw material
To cope with the natural variability, we keep the raw material under control starting from planting and
cultivation until harvest and drying of the medicinal plants, selecting only the best batches of herbal raw material for extraction.
The material used for extraction must comply with our strict quality specifications: these include thorough controls of
possible impurities (pesticide and fungicide residues, heavy metals, aflatoxins), and identification and quantification
of the active substances or characteristic compounds.
Extraction
Pharmaton has a long experience in mild extraction methods. In most cases, the action of a
phytopharmaceutical preparation is not based on one single substance, but on the combined effects of all its
components. A plant extract can develop its full effect only if it is applied as a complete entity.
The validated extraction processes developed and applied by Pharmaton make it possible to retain from the vegetable
material all relevant substances which are contained in the medicinal plant and to produce so-called "total extracts", thus preserving the natural profile of the herbal
ingredients as found in the fresh herbal material.
Our specialist know-how: standardized plant extracts
One more secret of the success of Pharmaton Natural Health Products lies in
the unique standardisation process of the plant extracts, ensuring that the same composition profile and the same
concentration of components are always reproduced. Different processes are available to standardise an extract,
depending on the present scientific knowledge of its active chemical compounds. Only standardisation ensures a consistent
and reproducible effect of each dose of the phytopharmaceutical product.
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