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- Title
Herbal Medicine Kumaryasava for Its Better Antioxidant Activity.
- Authors
Patil, Pranali; Patil, S. S.
- Abstract
Aloe vera is gaining popularity as its production profit is much greater than conventional crops using lesser water and efforts. From around 400 species of it just 2 species; Aloe barbadensis and Aloe aborescens are used for trade in the world. It has great commercial importance and health potentials. Due to worldwide healthcare crises, the heath care needs are beyond the reach of common people. Because of this unbalancing economy, there is negligence of the typical diseases in the low social community. Ayurveda plays important role in new drug development of poly herbal drugs and formulations to treat various diseases. It includes various types of medicines such as some fermented forms-asavas and arishta. Asavasare self-generated herbal fermented formulations of traditional medicinal system. They are formulated by keeping the herbal juices or their decoctions for fermentation with the sugars or jaggery. Kumaryasvais recommended as general tonicfor the people in all ages and used in liver, urinary and respiratory disorder. This study is aimed to set the standard operational procedure and effect of its preparation method on antioxidant activity of Kumaryasava. The evaluation of the formulations of Kumaryasvawasdone by various physico-chemical standards including pH, viscosity, specific gravity, total solid, total alcohol, reducing sugar and non-reducing sugar, phenolic content as well as heavy metal and mineral content. Also the formulation is evaluated for its in vitro antioxidant activity by DPPH assay Present study provides quality control standards as per pharmacopoeial monograph for the better utility and safe use of this formulation. It was found that preparation of Kumaryasava with minimum selective ingredients has shown improved antioxidant activity and it will be cost effective at industrial level.
- Subjects
HERBAL medicine; ALOE; ALOE vera; DRUG development; QUALITY control standards; SPECIFIC gravity
- Publication
International Journal of Pharmacy & Life Sciences, 2020, Vol 11, Issue 7, p45
- ISSN
0976-7126
- Publication type
Article