WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Ashok Kumar Sharma*, Gaurav Shukla, Nidhi Kumari, Dimple Khandelwal, Kaushik Kumar Gupta and Kapil Kumar Karsauliya

ABSTRACT

Today the advancement of medical science is at its peak. As we know that pharmaceutical dosage form is combination of active ingredients and excipients. So pharmaceutical dosage form cannot be formulated without the use of excipients. Excipients are major part of formulation that is used as medium for delivering the medicaments . Excipients are chemically inert and improve the shelf life of products. Hence the performance of excipients decide the quality of medicine. In the present time synthetic excipients are replaced with the herbal excipients herbal excipients have the great advantage over the synthetic ones because their wide availability in nature, less toxicity, affordability, stability and eco friendly nature. The herbal excipients overcome the problem of toxicity and incompatibility of synthetic excipients in various drug delivery systems. Thus this review aims to reflect light on versatility and potential of herbal natural excipients which can be used as diluent, binder, colorants, antioxidant and preservatives in various formulation This study depicts the importance of natural excipients in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics and increase awareness about the plant based excipients used in the formulation development.

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