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<Journal>
<Journal-Info>
<name>International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences</name>
<website>ijpbs.net</website>
<email>editorijpbs@rediffmail.com (or) editorofijpbs@yahoo.com (or) prasmol@rediffmail.com</email>
</Journal-Info>
<article>
<article-id pub-id-type='other'>10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12</article-id>
<issue_number>Volume 6 Issue 1</issue_number>
<issue_period>2015 (January - March)</issue_period>
<title>EVALUATION OF IN VITRO ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY AND MEDIAN LETHAL DOSE ESTIMATION OF A SIDDHA POLYHERBAL FORMULATION: SINGINATHA CHOORNAM IN RAT MODEL </title>
<abstract> lessThan i greaterThan Singinatha Choornam lessThan /i greaterThan , a Siddha polyherbal formulation has been prescribed for Allergic Rhinosinusitis in the literature. The objective was to evaluate the antibacterial activity and safety of  lessThan i greaterThan Singinatha Choornam lessThan /i greaterThan  in a rat model. Initially, Physico chemical characterization studies were done adopting a methodology of Pharmacopoeial Laboratory for Indian Medicine. Antibacterial study was done by Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method against gram positive and negative strains comparing with Ciprofloxacin. An Acute toxicity study was done on female wistar albino rat under OECD guidelines 423. Physicochemical parameters results can be used as standard in future for maintaining quality of this drug.  lessThan i greaterThan Staphylococcus aureus  lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan  Escherchia coli  lessThan /i greaterThan were susceptible to 50 µl/disc of aqueous extract of the test drug prepared with 5 g of sample in 50 ml of distilled water. Acute oral toxicity study of  lessThan i greaterThan Singinatha Choornam lessThan /i greaterThan  revealed no mortality even at the dosage of 2000 mg/kg body weight justifies its recommended therapeutic dosage of 1 g.</abstract>
<authors>V.GEETHA, S.ELANSEKARAN, V.THANIGAVELAN, V.KALIYAMURTHI, P.PARTHIBAN  AND K.KANAGAVALLI</authors>
<keywords>Singinatha Choornam, Siddha, Rhinosinusitis, Acute toxicity and Antibacterial study</keywords>
<pages>236-241</pages>
</article>
</Journal>
