An approach towards adopting pharmaceutical and analytical standard operative procedures for “Vasavaleha”, a classical Ayurvedic semisolid dosage formulation

Abstract

Vasavaleha is an important formulation in Ayurveda used for various disorders of respiratory tract including asthma, bronchitis, chronic cough. In this paper an attempt has been done to standardize the formulation using standard reference procedure given in Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India e.g. microscopic evaluation, TLC profiling, physicochemical parameters including extractive value, ash value, loss on drying, Ph value.