Abstract

FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF PEDIATRIC HERBAL CHOCOLATE

Mandar Vijay Sathe* and Rutuja R. Shah

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Abstract

Children's favorite food is chocolate, whereas medicine is a thing they hate. so, the purpose of this study was to develop chocolate that included a medicine, i.e., medicated chocolate, in order to prevent disease. In pediatrics cough, and viral infection are the most common diseases. Cymbopogon Citratus is an herb which is having several medicinal properties such as antimicrobial, antibacterial, activity, etc. Hence, in the present investigation, an attempt was made to prepare a chocolate formulation of Cymbopogon Citratus which improves the pediatric patient's compliance acceptability. Further, preparing medicated chocolate is evaluated for general appearance, dimension, hardness, drug content determination, physical stability, etc.

Keywords: Medicated Chocolate, Pediatric, Antibacterial, cough, Cybmbopogon Citratus.