Pharmacopeial Testing of Poly-Herbal Formulation for the Management of Diabetes Mellitus
Farah-Saeed . *
Department of Pharmacognosy, Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi-Pakistan.
S. M. Alam
Basic Medical Sciences Institute, Jinnah Post Graduate Medical College, Karachi-Pakistan.
A. S. Memon
Department of Physiology, Sir Syed College of Medical Sciences, Karachi-Pakistan.
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Abstract
Diabetes mellitus is a global cause of morbidity and mortality. There is a continuous rise in the patients of diabetes in Pakistan. Many conventional and natural origin medicines are available for maintaining optimum blood sugar level. There is a need to carry out standardization of the natural origin medicine to authenticate their efficacy and safety. The objective of this research work was to carry out preliminary pharmacognostic, phytochemical, biological, pharmacological studies on poly-herbal formulation. The poly-herbal preparation was prepared and evaluated for the standard pharmacopeial tests. The results of the tests performed were found to be adequate to evaluate the poly-herbal formulation and may be used as reference standards in future for further studies.
Keywords: Anti-Microbial activity, fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy, microscopic, Organoleptic, thin-layer chromatography.