Hingwastak Churna

Standardization of herbal formulation is essential in order to assess the quality of drugs for therapeutic
value as it is a plant-derived material containing raw ingredients. According to an estimate of World
Health Organization (W.H.O) most of the developing countries rely on traditional medicines. Hence, it
has given a detailed protocol in 1999 for the standardization of herbal drugs. Hingwashtak Churna is an
Ayurvedic formulation which is used to treat stomach ailments to maintain proper function of the
gastrointestinal tract, maintain eliminative function. It is also used in the treatment of vata imbalance and
vata related diseases like bloating joint diseases etc. A scheme was developed for standardization of
Hingwashtak churna for two marketed formulations and in-house. Various parameters such as physical,
chemical and biological were carried out for quantitative and qualitative analysis of selected formulations
and they showed promising results.