Formulation and Evaluation of Herbal Cream containing alcoholic extract of Sauromatum guttatum (Wall.) Schott for the treatment of Fungal infection.

Sauromatum guttatum (Wall.) family Araceae, known as bhasamkand is an perennial herb. The herb grows widely during rainy season. The plant is widely distributed in the moist area of Punjab plains, Upper Gangetic plain, Dehradun, Budelkhand, Chota Nagpur, Tirhut, Konkan, Deccan and Madhya Pradesh. Tubers are the main part of the plant, used in treatment of various ailments. Present investigation deals with formulation of herbal cream containing alcoholic extract of Sauromatum guttatum (Wall.) tuber. Seven different batches F1 to F7 were formulated using different proportion of excipients. The formulated batches were evaluated for their physical characteristics, spreadibility, drug content, drug release and stability studies. The result indicates that the formulation code, F5 is showing better results as compared to other formulation codes. Anti-fungal activity of optimized herbal cream was determined and was reported in present paper, also further clinical efficacy required to establish for optimized formulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]