Abstract

INGREDIENTS IDENTIFICATION AND PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS OF TRIPHALA GHRITA-A COMPOUND AYURVEDIC FORMULATION

Dhruva Dabhi*, Manjusha R., Harisha C. R. and Shukla V. J.

Abstract

Myopia is a major public health problem pertaining to eye that entails substantial societal, personal, educational and economical impact. Myopia also known as short sightedness is dioptric condition of the eye in which with the accommodation at the rest incident parallel rays come to a focus anterior to the light sensitive layer of retina.[1] Myopia progression is irreversible and methods for the correction of myopia are not without complications. A clinical study was conducted on this problem with Triphala ghrita. It was inferred from the results that it has encouraging results in the treatment of Myopia. It was aimed to develop the pharmacognostical and phytochemical profile of Triphala ghrita. The pharmacognostical study of ingredients of Triphala ghrita shows the presence of Rosette crystal, epicarp cells, tannin contant etc. Pharmaceutical analysis of Triphala ghrita showed that loss on drying 0.01%, Saponification value 199.94%, Specific gravity 0.09% Refractive index 1.464% and High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography at 254 nm resulted into 12 spots respectively. These parameters of pharmacognosy and pharmaceutical analysis can be used as baseline for future.

Keywords: Triphala ghrita, HPTLC, Pharmacognosy, Physicochemical.