As a practitioner trusted with the care of someone’s health it is important to be sure of the quality of the medicines you are supplying. To ensure the highest standards of product quality are maintained, The Herb Booth’s suppliers are carefully assessed for their compliance with a European-standard of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). This means either Pharmaceutical Inspection Cooperation Scheme (PIC/S) certification from an Australian recognised member country, or more directly, Australian TGA certification.
The Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention was formed in 1970 and their goal is to harmonise GMP requirements and provide uniform inspection systems with mutual recognition amongst member countries.
Australia has long been a member of the Convention and has adopted the PIC/S GMP standard as its own. This forms the Australian Code of GMP for Medicinal Products.
China has its own national GMP standard for the manufacture of therapeutic goods, however The Herb Booth has gone a step further and restricts its purchasing only to Chinese pharmaceutical companies that comply with Australian/European GMP standards.
Stock shipments from China are temperature monitored throughout their journey to ensure the extracts are not exposed to dangerously high temperatures, which can affect the quality of the herbs.
Once received, a shipment is subjected to an extensive series of checks. Each herb is accompanied by a Certificate of Analysis which is checked against our own specifications for each herb. Such checks ensure that the correct species has been identified and it has undergone its appropriate chemical and microbiological testing.
We only supply concentrated extracts as granules (and occasionally powders). Our extracts have 5:1 concentration ratio.
The Herb Booth stocks several endangered species whose trade is monitored by the Convention for the International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES). Their use is permissible via CITES export and import certificates which confirms their farmed or artificially propagated source. The Herb Booth never uses endangered plant or animal species gathered from the wild.
See below for the list of herbs in our database. Most herbs are currently supplied except those marked with a ‘(NA)’. A ‘(P)’ next to a herb indicates a Premium herb. Click on ‘Pin Yin’ or ‘English’ to sort by that column.