The cough is one of the most common problem faced all people. There are mainly two type of cough, one is Dry cough and another one wet cough. Dry cough is no mucous secretion while in wet cough there is cough with mucous secretion. Syrup is commonly used and popular dosage form which is used to cure cough and cold, because it having easy to patient compliance. The herbal cough syrup was. Formulated using crude drugs as Marshmallow root (as a anti-irritant), Elderberry (as a anti-bacterial), Pineapple (as a anti-inflammatory) & Ivy (as a anti-viral).

Quality of herbal cough syrup was evaluated for pre-formulation and post formulation like density, viscosity, pH and various organoleptic characteristics