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Medicinal plants are widely used for the preparation of various pharmaceutical forms. Eleutherine palmifolia is a typical plant in Central Borneo in Indonesian. 1,4 naphthoquinone is a bioactive compound from E. palmifolia which has potential as a medicinal ingredient, one of which is anticancer. This study aimed to determine the levels of 1.4 naphthoquinone as a marker compound for the standardization of standardized herbal medicine (OHT) formulas of E. palmifolia extract. The separation was carried out with Thermo Fisher Scientific UHPLC Ultimate 3000 RS coupled with a diode array detector, and the C18 column was employed. The UV detection was performed at 254 nm, and the run time of 0.8 minutes. The mobile phase consists of an isocratic method, 95% methanol (A) and 0.5% chloroform (B). The results showed that 1,4 naphthoquinone was eluted at 3.260 min. The response of the standard 1,4 naphthoquinone linear in the concentration range of 3.0-21.0 μg/mL with r 2 = 0.9951. The accuracy of this method, which was 99.95% with RSD value ≤ 2%. UHPLC method was developed, which has been validated and shown applies to the determination and quantification of 1,4 naphthoquinone in E. palmifolia. Analysis of 1.4 naphthoquinone levels contained in E. palmifolia 12 μg/mL was 7.79 μg/mL ± 0.01.

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Tea leaves are very rich in fluoride, since tea plants take up fluoride from the soil and accumulate in its leaves. Some of this fluoride is released into the infusion, which is drunk as tea. Fluoride in tea could be beneficial for the prevention of dental caries, but it may result in excessive intake and lead to enamel fluorosis. The purpose of this work was to determine the fluoride levels in 12 different brands and types of tea by means of a computer-controlled ion-selective electrode potentiometry using a standard-addition method. It is a rapid method which showed good accuracy and precision. Fluoride contents of tea infusions after 5 min ranged from 0.95 to 4.73 mg/l for black teas; from 0.70 to 1.00 mg/l for green teas, and from 0.26 to 0.27 mg/l for herbal teas. It was concluded that black teas and green teas examined may be important contributors to the total daily fluoride intake. However, the ingestion of some black teas that were found to have high fluoride content by children at the age of risk to dental fluorosis should be avoided.

SummaryFluoride impurities in pharmaceutical grade calcium ascorbate were determined analytically by capillary gas chroniatography (GC) and ion-selective electrode potentiometry (ISE). In the GC method, the amount of fluoride impurities was quantitatively analyzed following the conversion of fluoride to its corresponding trimethylsilane derivative using trimethylchlorsilane. The derivatization procedure was performed under acidic conditions and the generated trimethylfluorsilane was subsequently extracted with n-hexane prior to GC analysis using isopentane as an internal standard. In the potentiometric method, the fluoride content was determined by relating the potential of the sample solution at different concentrations to a calibration curve. A comparative evaluation between the two methods was validated according to their linearity, precision, and accuracy. The fluoride concentrations found by means of GC and ISE were (0.94 k 0.04) ppm and (0.85 k 0.12) ppm, respectively. The student's f-test (error of the first kind ct = 0. I ) indicated that there was no significant difference between the results obtained by the two methods.