Gomutra Haritaki is one of the Ayurvedic Drug which has been indicated for Granthi, Arbuda, Apachi, Pandu, Sotha, Arsha. Here to treat Garbhashaya Arbuda (Uterine fibroid) Gomutra Haritaki was taken. The present work was carried out to standardize the finished product Gomutra Haritaki to conform its identity, quality and purity. The pharmacognostical work reveals that presence of simple and compound grains, vessels with simple pits and groups of sclereids, few fibres, stone cells, mesocarp cells and tannin containing cells had observed microscopically from fruit of Terminalia chebula. Organoleptic features of GH made out of the crude drugs were within the standard range as mentioned in the classic. The pH value of GH was 4.5, Loss on drying was 5.05 %w/w, ash value was 6.51 %w/w, water-soluble extract was 59.69 %w/w, methanol soluble extraction was 59.27 %w/w, acid insoluble ash value was 2.43% w/w and high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) at 254 nm and 366 nm resulted into 8 and 7 spots respectively.
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