Study on the Role of Vati Kalpana (Tablet Formulation) in Enhancing the Shelf Life of Herbal Drugs

Vati kalpana is a major part in Bhaishajya kalpana also known as Ayurved pharmaceutics .Vati Kalpana is the outcome of Kalka Kalpana, one of the five basic Ayurvedic pharmaceutical preparations. Vati Kalpana is an essential component of Ayurvedic pharmaceutics because of its various benefits, including ease of administration, palatability, and ease of dispensing and transportation. Vati Kalpana is a pharmacological method in which the powder of raw drugs (herbal or Herbo minerals) is triturated with Kasayam, juice, or even honey, and the medicines are prepared as pills or tablets. The Food and Drug Administration has mandated that all pharmaceutical products should have an expiration date (or shelf life). The search criterion was using the words “Shelf life”, “Saveeryata avadhi”, “stability study”, and “expiry date” in relation to the Ayurvedic formulations. The most common myth regarding ayurvedic medicine is that these medicines don't have any no expiry date but in reality, it is not true, Ayurvedic medicines do have shelf life. Shelf life is a very important aspect of pharmaceutics, which depends upon packaging, storing, material to be used in packaging, excipients used in dosages forms and some other external aspects as like climatic condition of storage place and markets.