American Journal of Advanced Drug Delivery www.ajadd.co.uk American Journal of Advanced Drug Delivery www.ajadd.co.uk Original Article Extraction of Mucilage and its Comparative Evaluation as a Binder

PES’s Modern college of pharmacy (For Ladies), moshi, pune, maharashtra A binder holds powders together to form granules and also provides the cohesiveness required for binding of the granules under compression to form a tablet. Some natural excipients are currently available for pharmaceutical formulation. Aim of this study was to isolate the mucilage from different plants and to evaluate them as a binder. Here an effort was made to investigate the efficacy of mucilage obtained from fruits of Ziziphus mauritiana and Aegle marmelos as tablet excipient. A microwave assisted extraction technique was developed to optimize the extraction of mucilage from the fruits of Ziziphus mauritiana and Aegle marmelos plants. Fruits of both plants have been extracted by conventional and microwave assisted method for isolation of mucilage. The extracted mucilage has been evaluated for various physicochemical properties. Tablets wer