Abstract

QUALITATIVE EVALUATION OF MARKET SAMPLES OF UNRIPENED FRUIT OF BILWA (AEGLE MARMELOS CORR.) BY SPECTROPHOTOMETRY

*Vd. Rajendra H.M., Dr. Meenal Dipak Lad

Abstract

In present era, even with the advancements in the modern medicine and discovery of effective drugs of synthetic origin in the recent past, the indigenous, traditional medicines still remain alive as precious cultural heritage in different societies of the world. These continue to cater in a significant matter to the medicinal needs of the third world countries which are inhabited by about 80 percent world’s population. However, there are a lot of concerns about the traditional medicine in areas of quality, safety and efficacy. Hence, Standardization is the key to overcome these problems and to assure quality, safety and efficacy of medicinal drugs. Spectrophotometry is one of the standardization technique used for evaluation of quality of plant materials. In the present study, freshly collected unripened Bilwa fruits were selected and Spectrophotometry was performed to obtain spectral readings which were considered as standard which denotes the quality and purity of the drug. Market test samples of unripened Bilwa fruits were procured and Spectrophotometry was performed to get the spectral readings in order to evaluate the quality by comparing the readings with that of genuine one. By comparing spectral readings of market test samples with that of standard sample, the study showed that market samples of unripened Bilwa fruits are of genuine one.

Keywords: Unripened fruit of Bilwa, Spectrophotometry, wavelength.