Abstract

COMPARATIVE PHARMACOGNOSTICAL EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT MARKET SAMPLE OF PATALA (STEREOSPERMUM SUAVEOLENS ROX.DC.)

Noopur Pandey*, Makhan Lal and Ramanand

Abstract

Traditional herbal medicine becomes popular than conventional medicine hence demand of medicinal plants increased. To get better result in the clinical practice it is important the drug is authentic, pure, and easily available. “Patala” (Stereospermum suaveolens Rox. DC.) Is a drug of high demand, in the pharmaceutical industry, the availability of authentic drug is decreased. This Decline in authenticity is due to adulteration and substitution. “Sufficient literature and documents are available regarding the morphology of Patala. In the present there is market dependency for the procurement of Patala is in crude form. After a drug dry up, it is a tedious work to identify it. In the market available genuine drug is either substituted or sub standard and adulterated. It is difficult to find out genuine drug among them without the help of modern scientific methods.

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