FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF THALISADI CHURNA AND ITS COMPARISON WITH MARKET PRODUCTS

Abstract

Thalisadi Churna is a reputed drug mentioned in the ancient books of Ayurveda for the treatment of cough, asthma. Churnas are preparations comprising of fine powders of drugs and may be simple or compound. Simple churnas consists of only one ingredient while a compound one consists of more than one ingredient. In ayurvedic system of treatment, churnas are as excellent as are asavas and arishtas for the abolition of diseases. The principle of using Churnas is due to the fact that therapeutic value of most of the substances is greatly increases when they are reduces to vary fine state of subdivion. They are also easily administrable specially in the cases of children where they cannot swallow pills, tablets or capsules. The present paper deals the therapeutic aspects and efficacy of formulation thalisadi churna and comparative evaluation parameters with marketed product.