ABSTRACT
Plantago seeds outer seed coat possess up to 10–30% hydrocolloid that can be upon further hydrolysis separated into neutral and acidic polysaccharides like L-rhamnose, D-galactose, L-arabinose, D-xylose, and D-galacturonic acid, tannin, aucubin glycoside, sterols, sugars, fixed oils, and protein. P. ovata mucilage content made it pharmaceutical excipients involved film formation, disintegrating, binding, suspending, thicker, and emulsifying qualities due to low cost and vegetative origin in various granules and tablet formation. Superdisintegrants are compounds which upon addition to the tablets makes, splitting of thick mass into small particles, to facilitate drug dissolution and discharge of active component during it approaches to the surroundings fluid. P. ovata is used as effective super disintegrant agents or fast disintegrating tablets that are considered as novel type of tablets which disintegrate/disperse or dissolve easily in saliva and consumed by geriatrics, pediatrics, mentally disabled and bed ridden patients who have suffered from dysphagia, coughing, nausea, allergy, and motion sickness.
