European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

NOVEL NATURAL POLYMERS FOR FAST DISSOLVING TABLET

Kirti Rani*, Nayyar Parvez, Pramod Kumar Sharma

ABSTRACT

Fast dissolving tablets are very popular now a day as they get dissolved and disintegrated in mouth with in few second of administration without water. Fast dissolving tablets are beneficial for pediatric, geriatric and mentally ill patients who have difficulty in swallowing tablet and capsules. Natural polymers like lepedium sativum, chitosan, Gum Arabic, plantago ovata, gum karaya, gellan gum, ocimum mucilage, cordia mucilage, terminalia gum, isapghula mucilage, albizia gum, almond gum, improve the properties of tablets and used as binder, diluent, superdisintegrant, enhance the solubility of poorly water soluble drug. Natural polymers are obtained from the natural sources. They are non-toxic, cost effective, biodegradable, ecofriendly, devoid of any side effect, renewable and provide nutritional supplement. It is proved from the studies that natural polymers are more safe and efficacious than the synthetic polymers. Thus the present article reviews some new natural polymers used the formulation of FDTS.

Keywords: fast dissolving tablet, Natural polymers, chitosan, gellan gum, aegle marmelos.