Abstract

FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF HERBAL SYRUP

Dr. Javesh K. Patil, Dipali R. Mali*, Komal R. More and Shraddha M. Jain

Abstract

Most of herbal syrup was originally derived from plant herbal medicine refers to use extract of fruit for medicinal purpose. Along with other dosage from herbal drugs also formulated inform of syrups. Today syrup is used for treatment of many ailments and to overcome symptoms of diseases. The antioxidant syrup is used to treat the cancer because of many stress condition and other oxidative reaction in body the free radical are generated, by using these syrup the condition is overcome. The extraction of kiwi is added into orange peel it gives flavored to syrup and basil leaves extract is added as antibacterial agent to inhibit the growth of bacteria and sugar and alcohol used as preservative. Four formulation viz. F1, F2, F3 and F4 were prepared with variation in quantity of ingredients like alcohol, sugar and final volume of syrup. All prepared formulation was by parameters like density, specific gravity, pH, organoleptic characteristics. The results shown that herbal syrup formulation number 4 (F4) is more stable and elegant as compared to other formulations.

Keywords: Herbal Syrup, Kiwi, Basil, Orange peel, Evaluation.