Abstract

STANDARDISATION OF AYURVEDIC POLYHERBAL FORMULATION NIMBADI CHURNA

P. Percial* and R. Indumathy

ABSTRACT

Ayurveda is one among the traditional systems of medicine in India. Now a days an exponential growth in the usage of herbal medicines has been observed universally. Eventhough traditional system of medicine was found to be effective, it’s usage is limited because of lack of quality assurence.The main objective of present study is to perform standardization and phytochemical screening of Nimbadi churna a poly herbal ayurvedic formulation. Nimbadi churna was procured from market and standardised for the parameters like organoleptic characters, physical characters and physiochemical properties. Phytochemical screening of Methanolic extract of Nimbadi churna also been performed and the results obtained showed that the values exist within limits.

Keywords: Churna, Polyherbal, Standardisation.