Evaluation And Standardization Of Marketed Poly Herbal Formulations Of Different Brands

Abstract

Objective: To set a preliminary quality control parameters this may be helpful to the scientific community as well as manufacturing industries.
 Material and Methods: Five different sealed packs of Mahasudarshan Tablet were procured from the Pharmacy Shop, which were evaluated on Organoleptic tests, Physico-chemical parameters such as pH, water soluble extractive, Alcoholic soluble extractive, Loss on drying, Ash value, Acid insoluble ash, Water soluble ash, and Specific tests for tablets such as weight variation test, friability, disintegration, dissolution time as per standard guidelines were carried out.
 Results and Discussion: Phytochemical test indicates the presence of alkaloid, glycosides, terpenoids, tannins, and steroids in both formulations. Parameters for loss of drying, ash values, and extractive values documented. Pharmaceutical parameters, such as hardness, friability, weight variation, and disintegration, were found to be within acceptable values.
 Conclusion: Quality control parameters are the fundamental factors for evaluating the purity, standards and effectiveness of any formulation. Therefore, the findings of the present study may be considered as first step towards generating scientific evidence of quality assurance for marketed formulations.