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Marketed polyherbal syrup is made from five crude drug decoction, which acting with essential diuretic principles, which are Mimusops elengi, Santalum album, Crateva nurvala, Tribulus terrestris, Andropogon muricatus. The aim of this study is to evaluate diuretic activity of such marketed polyherbal formulation in wistar albino rat. Dose of marketed polyherbal syrup is 1ml/200gm, Frusemide10mg/kg. Evaluation of diuretic effect is done by measuring urine volume, sodium potassium and chloride excretion. We can conclude that marketed URIFLUX syrup produced notable diuretic effect which appeared to be comparable that produced by reference standard diuretic Frusemide.

Derivative spectroscopy is one of the important technique for as resolution of multi component systems. Many of the modern pharmaceutical formulations are so complex because they contains  number of excipients such as diluents, disintegrating agents, stabilizers, coloring agents or dyes, flavors etc. along with the active ingredient. Derivative technique is becoming increasingly popular in analytical spectrophotometry as a background correction and as a resolution enhancement technique. Derivative spectroscopy is a  technique which offers an alternative approach to the enhancement of sensitivity and specificity in mixture analysis. Derivative spectrophotometry is a technique which is based on derivative spectra of a basic, zero-order spectrum. Derivative spectroscopy is widely used in different fields of the analysis.

There appears to be a gap in the awareness level and the life–style practices adopted by youngsters regarding non–communicable diseases. A study was done to  assess  the  awareness, attitude and practices and the gap between awareness and practices adopted by the university students regarding the non-communicable diseases. This cross- sectional descriptive study carried over a period of 3 months from August 2010, involving a cohort of 1067 students, admitted during the first-semester 2010 of a reputed all-India technology university was done to assess their awareness, dietary and exercise behaviors in relation to non–communicable diseases using a predesigned and pre–tested questionnaire. Physical examination of 70 randomly selected students was also done to calculate difference between perceived and actual BMI. Roger’s diffusion of innovation model was used to classify them into different groups. 65.96% responded with majority 79.26% being less than 20years of age.34.04% were laggards.73.6% had a positive family history while 58.2% were aware of non-communicable diseases and 70.9% knew ill effects of excessive body weight on it.62.9% skipped their breakfast and 90.9% consumed fast foods regularly. Only 5.4% consumed fruits and 24.3% consumed milk daily while and only 15.2% engaged in some form of physical activity. The need of the hour is an enabling environment along with innovative strategies with multi-sectoral coordination to address the issue of non-communicable diseases and also bridging the gap between awareness and action in adolescents.