Authors : Amit Gajanan Nerkar, Rushikesh P. Nagarkar
DOI : 10.18231/j.ctppc.2023.014
Volume : 5
Issue : 2
Year : 2023
Page No : 63-66
Cancer is deadliest disease ever known. Vinca extract has the potential and beneficial in treating various cancer conditions. However, till date no known syrup of Vinca plant or its extract has been formulated. Cancer is a debilitated condition and formulation and evaluation of herbal syrup of alcoholic vinca extract may serve the patient compliance in debilitated condition and ease of administration of the syrup by oral route. The Vinca extract syrup was formulated using alcoholic extract of Vinca. The Vinca extract Syrups are easy to formulate and help overcome many disease states and are patient compliant. This paper deals with the formulation of laboratory scale vinca syrup. Various parameters were evaluated such as PH, viscosity, Density, stability testing. The syrup was found to be stable and ready for technology transfer.
Keywords: Herbal syrup, Decoction extraction, Evaluation, Formulation, Ethnopharmacology, Pharmacognosy