Abstract

INGREDIENTS IDENTIFICATION AND PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS OF MAHATRIPHALADI GHRITA-A COMPOUND AYURVEDIC FORMULATION

Hemant Kumar Nagar*, Dr. D. B. Vaghela and Harisha C. R.

Abstract

Myopia is one of the most prevalent eye diseases and a worldwide public health burden. Globally, there are approximately 1950 million (28.3% of the global population) with myopia. Myopia is a highly significant diseases because of its high prevalence rate and it can increase the risk for vision threatening conditions. A clinical study was conducted on this problem with Mahatriphaladi ghrita. It was inferred from the results that it has encouraging results in the treatment of Myopia. It was aimed to develop the pharmacognostical and phytochemical profile of Mahatriphaladi ghrita. The pharmacognostical study of ingredients of Mahatriphaladi ghrita shows the presence of Rosette crystal, sclereids, stone cells etc. Pharmaceutical analysis of Mahatriphaladi ghrita showed that loss on drying 0.012%, Saponification value 262.2%, Specific gravity 0.094% Refractive index 1.4%, Iodine value 5.9% and High-Performance Thin Layer Chromatography at 254 nm resulted into 10 spots and at 366 nm resulted into 4 spot respectively. These parameters of pharmacognosy and pharmaceutical analysis can be used as baseline for future

Keywords: Mahatriphaladi ghrita, HPTLC, Pharmacognosy, Physicochemical.