Abstract

INGREDIENTS IDENTIFICATION AND PHARMACEUTICAL EVALUATION OF NISHADI TAILA- AN AYURVEDIC POLYHERBAL FORMULATION

Preeti Patel*, D. B. Vaghela, Harisha C. R. and Shukla V. J.

ABSTRACT

Ayurveda is known as science of life. Several medicines are explained in Ayurveda to cure the diseases. Bhavprakash has described the effect of Nishadi Talia in the management of Mukharoga. There has been an increase in demand for the Phyto-pharmaceutical products of Ayurveda. So a new pharmaceutical preparation in the form of Nishadi Taila tried to standardize which is a classical drug formulation. The present study deals with the pharmacognostical identification of ingredients of Nishadi Taila and its Physico-Chemical analysis. Pharmacgnostical study containing both macroscopic and powder microscopy of raw drugs revealed the identity, quality and purity of all the constituents of Nishadi Taila. Pharmacognostical and phyto-chemical observations revealed the specific characters of all active constituents used in the preparation. Here Nishadi Tail is used in the management of Sarvasara Mukharoga . Acharya Susruta described three types of Sarvasara Mukharoga. In the condition oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) all this three types of Sarvarsara Mukharoga symptoms are seen. The presence of oil globules, endosperm fragments, pollen grain cork cells were the characteristic features observed in the microscopy of drug combination. Refractive index of Nishadi Taila found 1.4820, specific gravity 0.9148, iodine value 92.68, saponification value183.41 and acid value is 6.05.

Keywords: Nishadi Taila, Pharmacognosy, Sarvasara Mukharoga, OSMF.