• Ashwini Lavanya M S
• Anitha B R
• Manoj Kumar Samantaray

The recent years in Ayurveda has been the years of advanced pharmaceutical studies to develop new dosage forms with enhanced safety, efficacy and convenience in terms of palatability, portability and shelf life. The drug delivery system in Ayurveda involves various dosage forms which aims to provide therapeutic amount of the drug at the site of action, throughout the period of therapy and then to maintain the desired drug concentration. Vati Kalpana1 or the tablets in Ayurveda is one among the best and advanced form of medicine which can be incorporated with modern technologies to facilitate enhanced efficacy. In Vatikalpana different medicinal substances are used to make tablets (vati) and pills (gutika) either by cooking the powder of a drug with jaggery, sugar or guggulu or without cooking. There are numerous formulations in ayurveda literature which are enlisted under the roof of Vatikalpana. Acharya Sharangdhara also has mentioned various Vatikalpanas in the treatment if various diseases. One of them is GudaVatika(गुड वटिका) which is explained in the seventh chapter of Madhyama Khanda. Here is an attempt to prepare this formulation in various methods and to standardize the same.

chewable tablet, Guda Vatika, Vati Kalpana, Ayurveda

"A REVIEW ON VATI KALPANA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GUDA VATIKA-A CHEWABLE TABLET IN AYURVEDA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.b100-b111, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206116.pdf

"A REVIEW ON VATI KALPANA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GUDA VATIKA-A CHEWABLE TABLET IN AYURVEDA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. ppb100-b111, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206116.pdf