PHARMACOGNOSTICAL STUDIES AND CHROMATOGRAPHICAL EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT MARKET SAMPLES OF MYRISTICA FRAGRANS HOUTT
Dr. Manjunath Dundi*, Dr. Sonali M. Phulsagar and Dr. Giridhar Vedantam
ABSTRACT
Myristica fragrans Houtt. is a well known spices plant which is native
of moluccas and now cultivated in many tropical regions in India.
Being an potent effective herb, this plant is used richly in various
formulations. To maintain quality of the herb in the formualtion,
proper control of raw herb is almost essential. The first step to ensuring
quality of raw herb is authentification. Despite of modern techniques,
identification of the plant by pharmacognostic studies is more reliable.
The quality of herb also depends upon many factors like collection,
storage, form of drug. Any carelessness in this factors makes the drug
less active. Hence with the above rationale, the present studyis
undertaken to know the effect of collection of same sample of Jatiphala
from different regions by performing different qualitative and
quantitative analysis. Here pharmacognostic and phytochemical evaluation is done on four
different samples of Myristica fragrans taken from four different regions of India that is
Kerala, Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi. These four samples are analyzed for different extractive
values and chromatographic technique. This study provides referential information for
identification of this important crude drug from different areas.
Keywords: Myristica fragrans Houtt., Pharmacognostic evaluation, TLC.
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