Abstract

PHYTO ANALYSIS AND COMPARATIVE ESTIMATION OF TFC RAUVOLFIA SERPENTINA QUALITY PARAMETERS IN MARKETED AND FOREST SAMPLES.

Rahnuma Khan*, Dr. Manish Mishra and Dr. Mukta Shrivastav

Abstract

Rauvolfia serpentina is also known as sarpgandha or snakeroot is one of the very important Ayuvedic herb. It is used in treating high BP lack of sheep (insomnia) etc. It, is belong to the Apocynaceae family.Here in the present study, Phyto Analysis and Comparative Estimation of TFC Rauvolfia Serpentina Quality Parameters in Marketed and Forest Samples. The herbal drugs and medicinal plant products have been widely used for thousands of years in many parts of the world. Medicinal plants constitute a source of raw material for both traditional and modern systems of medicine. The increase in demand of medicinal plants for the commercial herbal medicine sector led to the indiscriminate and un scientific collection without any consideration for the quality of the material collected. The ocular observations of the market sample of R.Serpentina indicate that mixing of old and diseased parts of same species and other adulterants is rampant in the local market. Laboratory analysis shows that in one kilogram of market sample, more than 20% raw material was found adulterated in all the selected species. Checking and testing the quality of proposed raw herbals traded in the markets and compared to the freshly collected raw material from forest.

Keywords: R. Serpentina, Phyto Analysis, TFC, Marketed samples and Forest Samples.