Abstract

Presently, diverse plant polysaccharides contemplated for various applications as excipients like suspending agents, granulating agents, binders, disintegrating agents, mucoadhesives, gel-formers, release modifiers, enteric resistant, matrix formers, emulsifiers, etc., in several pharmaceutical dosage applications. From this, tamarind gum (TmG) is a coming forth excipient, which is being applied and looked into for the formulation of several dosage forms like emulsions, suspensions, tablets, creams, gels, beads, microparticles, spheroids, nanoparticles, buccal patches, and ophthalmic preparations, etc. The chapter messes with a comprehensive and utilitarian discourse on pharmaceutical diligences of TmG with its some significant features like isolation, source, and chemical composition and attributes (both physicochemical and biological).

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