Nature has provided us a wide variety of materials to help improves and sustains the health of all living things either directly or indirectly. Many herbal medicines have been recommended for the disease. Many polysaccharides have been finding, very interesting and useful application in the biopharmaceutical field. A large number of plant based excipients are available today. They have been extensively explored as pharmaceutical excipients. Fenugreek gum is one of them that have wide potentiality in drug formulation due to its extensive application as food additive and its recognized lack of toxicity. Through the keen references of reported literature on fenugreek gum. We have described critical aspects of fenugreek seed mucilage, its manufacturing process, physicochemical properties and application in various drug delivery systems.
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