STABILITY STUDY OF TRIPHALA CHURNA

Triphala Churna is an Ayurvedic preparation, prepared by mechanical mixing of three fruit pericarppowders, Emblica officinalis Gaertn., Terminalia belerica Roxb. and Terminalia chebula Retz. It is soldin the market as over the counter drug and mainly used for constipation problems. The raw material wascollected from the market, after confirming the appropriate time of collection, to get the fresh material.Triphala Churna was prepared as per the Ayurvedic Formulary of India, under the supervision of anAyurvedic manufacturer. In the present study the stability of the preparation was studied as per ICHguidelines. The samples were incubated in stability chamber for accelerated studies (A) and long termstudies (L). One set of samples was kept at ambient temperature and humidity for real time study (R).The samples were intermittently re-tested for organoleptic characters, physicochemical parameters andassay of the total tannins. It was observed that the results go along with the standard Ayurvedic text. Thepreparation has very short life when assessed on the basis of total tannins.