Formulation and evaluation of herbal floating tablets

Ramanamma, L and Pragnya, K and Likhitha, N and Bhargav, M and Pravallika, K and Narendra, Narendra and Panda, Jagadeesh (2025) Formulation and evaluation of herbal floating tablets. GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 30 (1). pp. 152-162. ISSN 2581-3250

Herbal tablets are oral dosage form that float in stomach and remain there for long period of time. They are designed to improve the bioavailability of drugs and deliver them locally to the stomach. Floating tablets can offer several advantages, including sustained drug delivery and site- specific drug. This review explains about the advantages, disadvantages, applications, general formulation factors. General excipients used, methods of manufacturing, Evaluation parameters were described briefly. Brief note on pre- compressional studies of powder blend, preparation of floating tablets and post compression studies of tablets were mentioned.