STANDARDIZATION OF A POLYHERBAL FORMULATION: DIA-CARE

Abstract

After post general agreement on tariffs and trade (GATT) era there is big surge in Herbal based medicines to find out their potential for treatment and cure of diseases and ailments which can or cannot be cured by well established allopathic formulations. Most of the traditional systems of medicine are effective but they lack of standardization. So there is need to develop standardization technique. Central council for research in Ayurveda has given preliminary guidelines for the standardization of conventionally used formulations. The present study deals with standardization of Dia-care, known to be effective in diabeters mellitus. One sample was procured from manufacturers and subjected to standardization on the basis of organoleptic properties, physical characteristics, physico-chemical evaluation and was compared using in-house formulation. It was observed that the commercial samples matched exactly with that of in -house preparation after performing the standardization.