Abstract

A PRELIMINARY PHYSICO-CHEMICAL EVALUATION OF PHALATRIKADI VATI: AN HERBAL FORMULATION FOR IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA

Anandkumar M. Patel*, V.K. Kori, VJ Shukla and C.R. Harisha

ABSTRACT

Iron deficiency anemia affects various people worldwide. Children and women of reproductive age are more prone to Iron deficiency anemia. Iron deficiency is harmful at all ages. In young children it hampers physical growth, cognitive development as well as immunity; at school age it affects school performance level; at adulthood it causes fatigue and reduced work capacity and among pregnant women anemia may cause fetal growth hampers and is responsible for a large proportion of maternal death. Phalatrikadi Vati is an Ayurvedic herbal formulation which is indicated in the management of Pandu (Anaemia). Pharmacognostical study consists of both microscopy and macroscopic of raw drug exposed the quality and genuineness of all the constituents of Phalatrikadi Vati. Organoleptic characters of its coarse powder made out of the crude drugs were within the standard range as per mention in classic.

Keywords: Anemia, Pandughni Vati, Pandu, Pharmacognosy, Physico-chemical.