Formulation And Evaluation of Polyherbal Capsules for Antidiabetic Activity

Herbal formulation is a dosage form consisting of one or more than fresh herbs of processed herbs in particular quantities to provide specific nutritional, cosmetics benefits and are meant to diagnose, treat, alleviate disease of human being. Poly herbal capsule is a form of ayurvedic medicine that is defined as totally dried raw materials which is powdered very minutely to a small size and then filtered to obtain fine powder and made as granules and filled in capsules. It is used to treat variety of diseases and conditions. The Aim of the present work is to reveal the pharmacognostic, phytochemical, antidiabetic activity for the formulation and evaluation of polyherbal capsules. The required materials were collected from Kasaragod and subjected to successive solvent extraction. Later pharmacognostic studies like microscopical evaluation, ash value and extractive value were carried out. The preliminary phytochemical studies were carried out in different solvents like Water, Petroleum ether, Chloroform, Ethanol, Methanol and Ethyl acetate. Water and ethanolic extract was used for the study of antidiabetic activity.