Abstract

STANDARDIZATION OF HERBAL AYURVEDIC OIL FORMULATION- NIRGUNDI TAILA

Ankush Mankar*, Bhushan Raghuvanshi, Abhijit Gawai, Premadevi Kalmegh, Kamalakar Gowardhan

Abstract

In Auyrveda, there is brief description about oils is given because of the specificity of the oils in treatment and secondly there is a useful property in fats- Oil and Ghee (Indian Purified Butter) which allows them to be choice of different purposes. According to Ayurveda classics Herbal Oils work on all the three Doshas, as qualities of this herbs poured into these oils. These Ayurvedic Oils can be taken internally, because of the way these Ayurveda Oils are prepared. Nirgundi Taila was prepared in-house and was compared with the marketed formulation. The parameters which were determined for the evaluation are acid value, saponification value, Iodine value, Ester value, weight per ml, viscosity and refractive index. The parameters were found to be similar and hence it was suggested that these parameters could be used for standardization of Nirgundi Taila.

Keywords: Nirgundi, Acid value, Ester value, etc.