Formulation and evaluation of chaturjat churna: Containing 4 ingredients

Abstract

Despite the growing interest in the safety of herbal medicines, national surveillance systems to monitor and evaluate adverse reactions associated with herbal medicines are rare. Moreover, there is a lack of effective communication on this subject at all levels, from international to local. A recent WHO survey showed that around 90 countries, less than half of WHO’s Member States, currently regulate herbal medicines and an even smaller proportion has systems in place for the regulation/qualification of providers of herbal medicines. Moreover, there are disparities in regulation between countries and this has serious implications for international access to and distribution of such products. In this paper attempt has been made to evaluate Chaturjat churna, a polyherbal formulation consisting of 4 ingredients with specific morphological parts. The ingredients were collected from market and churna was prepared and evaluated as per WHO guidelines.