The objective of present investigation was to evaluate the starches of banana as the disintegrating agent for pharmaceutical dosage forms. Banana starches are the cheap, easily available and found useful as tablet disintegrates. No significant work has been reported on banana starch to use it as tablet disintegrates. Tablets were prepared with banana starch(Musa AAB) and evaluated for tablet characteristics. Wet granulation technique has been used for the preparation of Ambroxol granules. The concentration of the starch used in the formulation of tablet was 10% w/w. In this 5% w/w concentration for before granulation and other 5 % w/w for after granulation. The tablets were compressed to hardness at about 4-4.5 kg/cm2. The evaluation, tablet showed 0.9 % friability, 5-10 minute disintegration time, more than 75 % dissolution in 90min. The banana starch was found to be useful for the preparation of uncoated tablet dosage forms.
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