AYURVEDA – one of the noblest and holiest traditional systems of medicine to prevent and heal human ailments. Ayurvedic system of medicine originated from India and spread over several developing and developed countries. Although an artificialization in the modern system of therapy is currently very dominant, a very usage and exploitation of traditional systems of medicine are unavoidable in health practice. The modern systems of drug analysis, with or without the aid of sophisticated in-puts, is capable of formulate and standardize all existing system of medicine adopting modern scientific principles. Based on this fact it has been decided to prepare a Viburnum punctatum churna containing the leaf of the species and then to standardize the same by pharmacognostical means to supplement some scientific information which can be correlated with existing data base of the crude drugs. The churna was subjected to micoscopical and several physic-chemical examinations including a primary organic analysis to obtain consistent and reproducible parameters, in addition to a screening of its anti diarrhoeal potential which help in progressing further studies on phyto-chemical and biological aspects of the churna in future.
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