Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology

Ankit Patel ¹, Pankaj Kushwah ¹, Sujit Pillai ¹, Ajay Raghuvanshi ¹, Nitin Deshmukh ¹

Affiliations
1 GRY Institute of Pharmacy, Borawan, Khargone, IN

Abstract

Natural remedies are more acceptable in the belief that they are safer with fewer side effects than the synthetic ones. Herbal formulations have growing demand in the world market. The present work deals with the development&evaluation of the herbal hand wash containing ethanolic extract of liquorice ischolar_main (Glycyrrhiza glabra). Hand-washing is very important process in day to day life. Hands are major source through which microbial infections may occur thus proper hand was must be required using appropriate hand wash formulation. Herbs are known to have antimicrobial properties thus utilization of such herbs as antimicrobial agent is a common practice now. Present study involves formulation of herbal hand wash using extract of liquorice ischolar_main (Glycyrrhiza glabra). Disc diffusion method was utilized for evaluation of the antimicrobial activity against skin pathogens of the prepared herbal hand. Its efficacy was checked and compared with the standard commercial hand wash. Results revealed that extract of liquorice ischolar_main (Glycyrrhiza glabra) formulation was more efficient in reducing the number of organisms from hands based handwash with less or no side effects. Thus, owing to higher antimicrobial activity efficacy these herbal extract can be used in the preparation of herbal hand wash on commercial scale.

Keywords

Hand Wash, Antimicrobial Activity, Glycyrrhiza glabra.

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Pankaj Kushwah ¹, Sujit Pillai Chetan Ghulaxe ¹, Nilesh Mandloi ¹, Sajjan Singh ¹, Rakesh Patel ²

Affiliations
1 GRY, Institute of Pharmacy, Borawan, IN
2 IIP, Indore, IN

Abstract

At the present time it is a wide spread belief on the part of the general public that natural substances are inherently superior to synthetic substances and have played a mainstream role in the health care system for the prevention of diseases. Asparagus racemosus, traditionally known as shatavari means "who possesses a hundred husbands or acceptable to many". In Ayurveda it is considered a female tonic. Asparagus racemosus has been successfully used by some medical practitioners as an anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial and immunomodulator for many infectious diseases. Asparagus racemosus can also improve the milk production and reproduction capacity of dairy animals. This review summarizes the Nutritional value aspects of Asparagus racemosus.

Keywords

Asparagus Racemosus, Immunomodulator, Anti-Inflammatory, Anti-Microbial.

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