A Recent Approach for Development and Standardization of Ayurvedic Polyherbal Formulation (Churna) for Antioxidant Activity
Himachal Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Nadaun (H.P) India
Abstract
In the Ayurvedic Pharmacopeia, many types of preparations are mentioned, one of them churna is a
formulation, in this study, we are prepared a churna by following as per Ayurvedic pharmacopeia, by mixing
with two Antioxidant herbal ingredients, it is a very essential preparation, known to be effective in all types of
oxidation related disorders in cellular and molecular level in the living organs, the prepared formulation has been
standardized by following modern scientific quality control procedures both for the raw material and finished
product. The obtained values of physical and chemical parameters can be adopted to lay down new
pharmacopoeial standards to be followed for traditional preparations of Antioxidant churna with batch-to-batch
consistency. The Physicochemical constituents found to be present in the raw material used the preparation of
Antioxidant churna possible facilitate the desirable therapeutic efficacy of the medicinal formulation, and also
could help in knowing the underlying mechanisms of Pharmacological Action.
