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| Title: | Pharmacognostical and physicochemical standardization of ethnopharmacologically important seeds of Lepidium sativum Linn. and Wrightia tinctoria R. Br. |
| Authors: | Bigoniya, P
Singh, C S
Shukla, A |
| Keywords: | Lepidium sativum
Garden cress
Wrightia tinctoria
Pharmacognosy
Physicochemical
Fluorescence
Phytochemical |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. cl. (2011.01)—A61K 36/00 |
| Abstract: | Quality control
standardizations of the various medicinal plants used in traditional medicine
is becoming more important today in view of the commercialization of
formulations based on these plants. Lepidium
sativum Linn. seeds are used as tonic, carminative in chronic liver enlargement
and spleen diseases. The bruised seeds mixed with lime juice are applied to the
relief the local inflammation and rheumatic pain. Wrightia tinctoria R. Br. seeds are
astringent, acrid, thermogenic, carminative, digestive, stomachic,
antidysenteric, constipating, depurative, anthelmintic, aphrodisiac, febrifuge
and diuretic. WHO recommends various physicochemical and phytochemical
evaluation parameters for quality control of medicinal plants. In view of their medicinal importance and
taxonomic confusion, morphology and microscopy, physico-chemical
parameters, fluorescence analysis, preliminary phytochemical screening and
quantitative estimation were performed to establish the salient diagnostic
characters. The morphological, microscopical and physicochemical standards
developed in this study will provide
referential information for identification of these crude drugs and
standardization.
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| Page(s): | 464-471 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0976-0512 (Online); 0976-0504 (Print) |
| Source: | IJNPR Vol.2(4) [December 2011]
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