Standardization of Dasana-Samasarkara Curna -A Polyherbal Ayurvedic Formulation

Abstract

India is vast repository of medicinal plants that are used in traditional medical treatments. Herbal medicines as the major remedy in traditional system of medicine have been used in medical practices since antiquity. Medicinal plants play an important role in the development of potent therapeutic agents. To keep this view in mind, a polyherbal Dasana-Samasarkara Curna is formulated in house, which is very effective in Mukharoga (disease of mouth), Dantaroga (disease of tooth). It formulated using ten single drugs viz. Zingiber officinale Roxb.(rhizome), Terminalia chebula Retz.(fruit), Cyperus rotundus Linn.(rhizome), Acacia catechu (Linn.f.) Willd (heart wood), Cinnamomum camphora (L.) Nees & Ebrm & ocimum  kilimandscharicum guerke(sub.Ex.), Areca catechu Linn.(seed bhasma), Piper nigrum Linn.(fruit), Syzygium aromaticum (Linn.) Merr.& M. Perry (flower), Cinnamomum zeylanicum Blume(stem bark), Kathini (khatikã) Kaolinite (Clay). All the ingredients and curna were analyzed in order to assess the authenticity of the drugs based on ayurvedic requirment following a series of powder microscopy, physico-chemical, HPTLC finger printing and microbiological parameters.The obtained values/ranges can adopted to pay down new pharmacopoeial standards, to be followed for traditional preparation of Dasana-Samasarkara Curna.