Abstract

BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF NATURAL GUMS, MUCILAGE’S AND THEIR APPLICATION AS PHARMACEUTICAL EXCIPIENTS

*Akhilesh Kumar, Jharna Sahu, Amit Roy, Pushpa P. Gupta, Jhakeshwar Prasad, Dhanesh Kumar

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Abstract

In recent few years there had been broad improvement and modification in various dosage form for existing and newly designed drugs and natural sources, and semi-synthetic as well as synthetic excipients often need to be used for a different purposes. Gums and mucilage’s are widely used in natural substances for conventional and novel dosage form. Natural gum mucilage’s are included in novel drug delivered (NDDS) to perform various tasks, functions and in any cases directly or indirectly control the increase and rate of drug release. These natural materials have more advantages over synthetic material since they are chemically inert, nontoxic, less expensive, biodegradable and broadly accessible. They can also be modified in different ways to fined customized materials for drug delivery systems and this way can challenge with the accessible synthetic excipients. In the present survey we have discussed gum and mucilage, as a powerful contender to be utilized as various pharmaceutical formulations. We have also compiled the various types of gum and mucilage used as pharmaceutical excipients, which makes it a potential candidate to be used as pharmaceutical excipient.

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Excipients, Natural Gums, Natural Mucilage’s.