While going through some publications on Polyherbal formulation for the management of diabetes, I encountered a publication where goat pancreas is used as one of the ingredients in addition to plants and calcified mussel cells. Can anyone tell me the relevance of goat pancreas and also how it can be called a polyherbal formulation?
Here is the link for the paper
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11655-016-2583-1
A Traditional formulation (in particular to Ayurveda system of medicine which i dealt with )may contain a single herb, multi herb combination, herbo mineral preparation containing herb and metal/mineral, herb- metal/ mineral- animal product, herb- animal product containing formulations.
In strict sense , a poly-herbal formulation should be called only to those formulations that contains only a combination of herbs. But in general practice, several products that contains a combination of herbs and either processed in animal products or have it as an ingredients are sometimes referred as poly-herbal, which is incorrect ethically. Ayurveda principals says like substances enhances like things. so do in the present context. Production of Insulin is related to Pancreas . May be similar approach is there in the traditional system of Chinese medicine.
Formulations restrain 2 or more than 2 herbs are called polyherbal formulation. Drug formulation in Ayurveda is based on 2 principles: Use as a single drug and use of more than one drug. The last is known as polyherbal formulation. The idea of polyherbalism is peculiar to Ayurveda even though it is tricky to explain in term of modern parameters.