DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF TRADITIONAL POLYHERBAL FORMULATION TO CURE DENGUE AND CHIKUNGUNYA
Snehal Mahamuni*, Bharatee Chaudhari and Vivekkumar Redasani
ABSTRACT
Herbal medicine is the most traditional method of treatment that has been used throughout history and is utilised in all cultures. The present study was focused on development and evaluation of polyherbal syrup to cure dengue and chikungunya. Dengue and chikungunya viruses are caused by an arbovirus. Both viruses are arthropod-borne viruses sharing a common vector. These two diseases are transmitted from infected person to the healthy person through bite of virus carrying female mosquito. There is no specific treatment for dengue and chikungunya. Generally, the doctors priscribes papaya leaves extract and NSAID drugs to treat the symptoms of dengue and chikungunya. Keeping our hopes up, we took steps to locate a remedy using all natural herbs that have been documented centuries ago and came up with a comparatively safer solution for this ailment. In present research some natural herbs are used to develop safe cost-effective syrup for dengue and chikungunya. The aqueous extracts of selected herbs were formulated in particular ratio to form herbal syrup. The plants chosen were carica papaya, aloe vera, tinospora cordifolia and ocimum tenuiflorum. The raw materials were collected, authenticated accordance with WHO guidelines. Several experimental batches were created by adjusting the percentage of simple syrup. This batches were tested for a variety of assessment factors. This formulation's accelerated stability was also studied. The formulation complies with all the phytochemical and physicochemical parameters, therefore it is concluded that polyherbal syrup was found to be safe.
Keywords: Dengue, Chikungunya, Polyherbal syrup, Phytochemical screening, Accelerated stability studies.
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