Standardization of Some Marketed Herbal Formulation Used in Diabetes
Keywords:
Standardization, Antidiabetes formulation, Diabetes mellitus, WHO guidelinesAbstract
Herbal Drugs have been used since ancient times as medicines for the treatment of range of diseases.
The herbal medicine and their preparations have been widely used by the world population in developing
and developed countries owing to its natural origin safety, efficacy lesser side effects or dissatisfaction
with the results of synthetic drugs. They are effective in all types of diabetes including Polyuria, it has
been standardized by modern scientific quality control processes both for the raw material and finished
product obeying to WHO’s guidelines. The evaluation of herbal formulations provides values for different
parameters which will help to put forth new standards to these traditional antidiabetic formulations. These
new standards will help to maintain consistency to various batches. The active constituents from various
parts of plants will effectively increases the potency & efficacy of herbal formulations. These parameters
will help to study pharmacological effect in comparison to modern antidiabetic drugs.
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