23ANALGESIC ACTIVITY OF MARKETED POLYHERBAL FORMULATIONAyurveda is considered to be a form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) within the western world, where several of its methods such as herbs, massage, and Yoga as exercise or alternative medicine are applied on their own as a form of CAM treatment. Herbalism is a traditional medicinal or folk medicine practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. Herbalism is also known as botanical medicine, medical herbalism, herbal medicine, herbology, and phytotherapy. The scope of herbal medicine is sometimes extended to include fungal and bee products, as well as minerals, shells and certain animal parts. Current scenario and the literature review highlight the undesirable effects of synthetic drugs and hence there is an upsurge in the development of herbal formulations. The present study was conducted with a view to evaluate the analgesic activity of the polyherbal formulation and compare with the standard synthetic drug available in the market. The major objective was also to assess the effective dose where in this formulation can act as a substitute to the synthetic drugs with lesser / no undesirable effects. From the results obtained, it can be concluded that 200mg/kg body weight showed the best analgesic activity and this activity was retained up to 60 minutes before declining. Thus the dose level further needs to be optimized using many more methods to assess analgesic activityAnisshaikh63@gmail.comResearch312013Polyherbal,Phytotherapy,Analgesic,IntragastricAwasthi Yogesh,Patidar Dindayal,,Bhargava Tanu,Shaikh AnisInstitute of Pharmacy, Vikram University, Ujjain, India,Institute of Pharmacy, Vikram University, Ujjain, India,Institute of Pharmacy, Vikram University, Ujjain, India,Institute of Pharmacy, Vikram University, Ujjain, India