Traditional medicines are effective but the Standardization of herbal formulations is essential in order to assess the quality of drugs, based on the concentration of their active principles. Department of AYUSH (Government of India) has given preliminary guidelines for standardizing these conventional formulations, for uniformity of batches in production of herbal formulation and it is necessary to develop methods for evaluation. The present work is an attempt to standardize Mehari choornam, a traditional ayurvedic formulation, used in reducing the blood sugar levels in border-line diabetes and also acts as on anti-oxidant thereby preventing end-organ complications. The various parameters performed included organoleptic characteristics, physicochemical, Microscopical and HPTLC analysis. The results obtained may be considered as tools for assistance to the regulatory authorities, scientific organizations and manufacturers for developing standards.
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