B. Vennat et al., TABLETS OF HAMAMELIS DRY EXTRACT BY DIRECT COMPRESSION - COMPARATIVE-STUDY OF NATURAL STARCHES AND STARCH DERIVATIVES, Drug development and industrial pharmacy, 19(11), 1993, pp. 1357-1368
Tablets of hamamelis dry extract are made by direct compression. The r
heological properties of natural starches and of various starch deriva
tives (split starches, pregelatinized starches, starch glycolates...)
are compared. 50 mg hamamelis dry extract (20 % w/w) formulations were
prepared with these different disintegrants; for each formulation mec
hanical properties of both powder mixture and resulting tablets were a
ssessed.