STANDARDIZATION OF CARICA PAPAYA LEAF EXTRACT
Ram Pentewar*, Dr. Shailesh Sharma and Dr. Vinesh Kumar
ABSTRACT
Papaya (Carica papaya linn) is well known for its exceptional
nutritional and medicinal properties throughout the world. From the
times immemorial, the whole Papaya plant including its leaves, seeds,
ripe and unripe fruits and their juice is used as traditional medicine.
Nowadays, Papaya is considered as nutraceutical fruit due to its
multifaceted medicinal properties. Standardization of drugs means
confirmation of its identity and determination of its quality and purity.
At present due to advancement in the chemical knowledge of crude
drugs various methods like botanical, chemical, spectroscopic and
biological methods are used for estimating active constituents present
in the crude drugs in addition to its physical constants. Plants have been known to relieve
various diseases in Ayurveda. Therefore, the researchers today are emphasizing on evaluation
and characterization of various plants and plant constituents against a number of diseases
based on their traditional claims of the plants given in Ayurveda. Extraction of the bioactive
plant constituents has always been a challenging task for the researchers. In this present
review, an attempt has been made to give an overview of certain extractants and extraction
processes with their advantages and disadvantages.
Keywords: Standardization, quality, purity, herbal products, phytochemical, extraction, solvent, screening.
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