Summary
Standardization is the process of making something conforms to a standard and it is necessary to establish Quality, Safety and Efficacy of a herbal product. Crateva adansonii DC (Varuna) is an evergreen tree from the Capparidaceae family and the stem bark of this plant is mainly indicated for urinary calculi (mutra ashmari). This study was designed to determine some selected standardization parameters of the stem barks of this plant. Organoleptic, physical, chemical and biological analyses were conducted. Under physical parameters, the foreign matter content (2%), total ash (1.88%), acid-insoluble ash (1.32%), water-soluble ash (4.45%) and loss on drying (9.66%) were within the standard limits. Water-soluble extractive value (10.5%) was higher than the alcohol-soluble extractive value (1.3
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