BACKGROUND Alpinia galanga (L.) Willd. commonly called as Rasna, Greater galangal or Kulinjan is a medicinally important rhizome used in Indian traditional system of medicine to cure a number of ailments. A. galanga is the main source of a galangin -a medicinally important flavanol which has a number of pharmacological properties viz. anti-mutagenic, and anti-inflammatory. Due to the high deman...

Chlorophytum tuberosum Baker and Chlorophytum laxum R. Br. belong to family Liliaceae and is being used in the indigenous systems of medicine as a galactogogue and aphrodisiac. These species are commonly known as safed musali. The drug part is usually used as the white tuberous roots. The present studies include the macroscopic, microscopic characters, histochemistry and phytochemistry. The phy...

grasses are natural homogenous group of plants and belong to the gramineae family (poaceae). the value of grasses to mankind has been recognized since the dawn of human civilization and culture of cereal grasses. in the present study, leptochloa uniflora hochst (poaceae) was subjected to antioxidant and phytochemical profiles using uv-vis, ftir and hptlc. antioxidant assays were studied using d...

Background: Natural substances that were initially obtained from plants once regarded as a beneficial source of possible medicinal agents and recognized crucial in the development human diseases. The current study sought to determine whether hydroalcoholic extracts Garcinia cambogia plant fruits included any bioactive substances. Materials Methods: collected, shade-dried, ground into fine powde...

The present study was designed to detect the class of compound by phytochemical evaluation and perform high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) fingerprint analysis hexane extract P. quadrifida (HEPQ), chloroform (CEPQ), ethyl acetate (EAEPQ) ethanol (EEPQ). successive extraction based on eluotropic solvent system utilised for extraction. preliminary screening carried out all extract....

Standardization of herbal drugs is the need of the hour as the use and practice of traditional herbal drugs has increased tremendously. The main objective of the present study is to standardize the root tubers of Aconitum heterophyllum as per pharmacopoeial testing protocol which include powder microscopy, physico-chemical screening, HPTLC fingerprinting and GC-MS analysis. Preliminary phytoche...

842 Journal of Chemical Education • Vol. 84 No. 5 May 2007 • www.JCE.DivCHED.org Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is often used as a qualitative method. It can determine the number of components in a mixture, verify the identity of substances, monitor the progress of a reaction, or ascertain the effectiveness of a purification. Since TLC is so easy and practical, many chemists frequently use TLC...

Mentha piperita and Citrus sinensis was an aromatic plants well known for its fragrance and distinct aroma. In this prospective study to evaluate the chromatogram detection of ethanol extract of Mentha piperita and Citrus sinensis with standard flavonoid marker eriocitrin by HPTLC technique. HPTLC chromatogram was developed in ethanolic extract of Mentha piperita, Citrus sinensis and standard f...

A reverse phase HPLC method with UV detection has been developed and validated in order to quantify plumbagin, the bioactive marker of the roots of P. indica and P. zeylanica. A quantitative HPTLC method was also developed using hexane: ethyl acetate (8:2) as the mobile phase. The plumbagin content in the roots were determined using both the methods. P. indica was found to contain significantly...