FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF HERBAL COUGH SYRUP

Abstract

One of the most general problems among adults and children are cold, flu and their symptoms such as coughs and sore throaty. In such instances, we find that most people turn to certain medications for temporary relax that sometimes do not meet the prescribed health and safekeeping guidelines. The treatment of these acute infections and their underlying symptoms is one area where the use of certain herbal remedies are still remains common today. Herbal drugs play an important role in the management of it.⁽¹⁾ Currently available therapies for cough include cough suppressants which gives temporary fast relief but no longer has effective without any side effect but herbal expectorant and antitussives given better longer relief with minimal side effect. Many plants category known in people medicine of different civilization used for treatment of respiratory complaints such as cough, pneumonia and expectoration as well as in common cold also. Nowadays many pharmaceutical companies investing for research of improved efficacy of herbal medicines while considering the increasing interest of most of the population of world towards the Ayurveda formulations.⁽²⁾