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Synopsis The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India, Pt. II (Formulations) Vol. II is a legal document of standards for the quality of Ayurvedic formulations included therein (Under the Drug and Cosmetic Act, 1940). This volume comprises 51 monographs on compound formulations. Each monograph contains the definition, formulation composition, indicating the official Ayurvedic name of the ingredient, equivalent scientific name, part/form used, and their proportion in the formulation. This also includes method of preparation and description of the product. The identification of product includes microscopy of the ingredients, Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) and chemical tests. This Physico-chemical parameters contains loss of drying, total ash, acid insoluble ash, alcohol soluble extractive, water soluble extractive, pH etc. The indications, therapeutic uses and daily dose alongwith Anupana is also indicated in the monograph. This volume is second publication of this series, wherein the Pharmacopoeial standards of multiple ingredient formulations have been scientifically described. The standards have been consciously kept modest so that the implementation by the manufacturing companies becomes easily acceptable in order to maintain quality control and batch to batch uniformity. However, the efforts of the manufacturer should be to maintain higher standards of quality than described in this book. The Appendices of this volume contains the details of protocols used in the determination of various standards as well as methods of testing. References of the Ayurvedic literature in its original form are also added in order to authenticate the Ayurvedic standards referred in each monograph. In the Appendix, Ayurvedic definition and method of Sodhana etc. are also given. This book in general is more user friendly for the manufacturers, scientists and students, teachers involved in the standardization of Ayurvedic formulations.