<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language: HI" lang="EN-GB">Pharmacognostical identification of ingredients in <i>Laghulai curna</i>: An <i>Ayurvedic</i> compound formulation</span>

531-536<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:" times="" new="" roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-bidi-font-family:mangal;mso-ansi-language:en-gb;mso-fareast-language:en-us;="" mso-bidi-language:hi"="" lang="EN-GB">Laghulai curna is a compound formulation prepared by 13 single ingredients, viz. Suta (Suddha parada), Gandha (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Suddha gandhaka), Sunthi (Zingiber officinale Rose., rhizome), Marica (Piper nigrum L., Fruit), Pippali (Piper longum L., Fruit), Dipyaka (Yavani) (Trachyspermum ammi L., Fruit), Svetajiraka (Cuminum cyminum L., Fruit), Krisnajiraka (Carum carvi L., Fruit), Sauvarcala, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Saindhava, Ramatha (hingu) (Ferula assafoetida Regel., Excude), Vida<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> (Lavana), Sakrahvaya (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Kutaja) (Holarrhena antidysenterica Wall., Seeds) and used in Grahani (mal absorption syndrome), Atisara<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> (diarrhoea), Anaha (distension of abdomen due to obstruction to passage of urine and stools), Sūla (pain) in Indian System of medicine. The present paper provides microscopical diagnostic keys and HPTLC finger print profile that are needed for proper identification and authentication of an Ayurvedic compound formulation Laghulai curna.