Abstract

Dr. Ruchi Sharma* and Mangala Jadhav

ABSTRACT

Ayurvedic pharmaceutical industries that are flourishing now a day?s, they are demanding the standardization at every step of pharmaceutical processing. Also for the researcher, standardisation of drugs play a very important role, as many of times we are confused that which test we have to apply and once the tests are applied then the problem of how to evaluate and interpret the result started. Many organisations and pharmacopeia are there which have set up the suitable specific standardization parameters to evaluate the crude drugs and their finished products. These include various evaluation technique such as- pharmacognostical, physicochemical, phytochemical, analytical, biological and bio technological. Analytical methods are defined as the set of techniques that allow us to know qualitatively and /or quantitatively the composition of any material and chemical state in which it?s located. Nowadays, application of several modern analytical techniques has been done for evaluating the raw drugs and ayurvedic formulations to ensure their quality, safety and efficacy. If the raw drug is not of the standard quality the medicine would be of no use, as nowadays there are many adulterations which are done with the drugs that can detoriate the quality of our medicines, so it is very important to standardise the raw drugs also. As ayurvedic formulations many a times have different methods of their preparation and these medicines are again many a times prepared at the clinics by the ayurvedic acharya themselves. So it is a very important step to standardise these formulation so that every time we will come with a same quality of medicine. So it is very important for the ayurvedic acharyas, to know the importance of these tests and for which point of evaluation of drug and for which dosage form which type of test is to be done. This paper is henceforth stated to explore the significance of some of these analytical tests- why they are done, which test is to be done for which dosage form, what their result depicts, what?s the importance of doing that analytical test for the herbal and mineral formulations and drugs.