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| Title: | Pharmacognosy of aconite sold under the name Vatsanabha in Indian market |
| Authors: | Sarkar, P K
Prajapati, P K
Pillai, A P G
Chauhan, M G |
| Keywords: | Aconite
Vatsanabha
Macroscopy
Microscopy
Isolation
TLC |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A61K 36/00, A61P, A61P 1/00, A61P 7/00, A61P 9/00, A61P 11/00, A61P 19/00, A61P 39/00 |
| Abstract: | Aconite is one of the lethal poisons used in therapeutics of
Ayurveda. It is sold under the name of Vatsanabha
in Indian market. The aconite is generally found as mixture of different
species of Aconitum, due to the close
morphological similarity of the different species of aconites. The aims of the
study were to identify different species of Aconitum
present in the market samples of Vatsanabha
and to find out the authentic species of Vatsanabha,
i.e. Aconitum chasmanthum Stapf. ex Holmes in the market sample. Vatsanabha was sold from Indian markets
and was identified by means of macroscopic and microscopic studies and by TLC
profile. It was found that ‘Vatsanabha’
of Indian market is mixture of 8 species of Aconitum,
6 of these were identified as A. spicatum
Stapf., A. falconeri Stapf., A. chasmanthum Stapf. ex Holmes,
A. laciniatum Stapf., A. balfourii
Holmes ex Stapf. and A. deinorrhizum Holmes
ex Stapf. A. chasmanthum Stapf. ex
Holmes species is rarely available in market samples. |
| Page(s): | 685-696 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.11(4) [October 2012]
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