Pharmacognostic Standardization of Aralia racemosa L. Stem

Abstract

In accordance with World Health Organization (WHO); traditional medicines are utilized by 70-95% of worldwide population especially in developing countries with regard to their healthcare. Additionally, the usage of herbal drugs has grown incredibly in line with the worldwide trend of folks returning to natural remedies. The increasing utilization of botanicals by the public is forcing moves to evaluate the health claims of these agents and also to establish specifications of quality and manufacture [1] .Herbal drugs exert a key impact in health care programs particularly in developing nations. However hindrance behind the acceptance of herbal medicine in developed nations is the lack of documentation, stringent quality control measures. Therefore, documentation and standardization of the crude materials utilized in herbal medicine is vital for the global compliance of this system of medicine. In this regard, WHO supports the nations to provide conventional remedies and practices in communal and private health services. Construction of monographs are planned fundamentally to promote harmonization in the utilization of herbal drugs with respect to levels of safety, efficacy, and quality control. Pharmacognostic standardization, physicochemical investigation and preliminary phytochemical studies were all over accepted in recognizable proof and confirmation of the genuine plant materials. Standardization of herbal drugs is the strategy of recommending a set of specifications, constant parameters, definitive qualitative and quantitative values, which bring an assurance of quality, efficiency, safety as well as reproducibility. Proper identification and quality assurance of plant materials are essential to ensure reproducible result of herbal medicines, which will add to its safety and efficacy.

Pharmacognostic Study and Establishment of Quality Parameters of Quisqualis indica Linn. Leaves

“…Human use of herbal formulations can be permitted only after confirmation of the uniqueness, excellence, purity and safety of herbal crude drug. Plant material specifications obtained by studying various crude drugs analytical methods like sensory and macroscopic analysis, microscopical, physicochemical, and phytochemical and fluorescence evaluation will provide authenticity of raw material (28).…”

Pharmacognostical, physicochemical and phytochemical evaluation of Huberantha senjiana (Annonaceae) leaf: An endemic tree of Gingee Hills Tamil Nadu India

“…Huberantha senjiana leaf pharmacognosy http://jppres.com J Pharm Pharmacogn Res ( 2022) 10(1): 169 constituents present into fluorescent derivatives, which show fluorescence in UV light, which is characteristic for a particular drug and may be useful in the detection of adulterants. Thus, the technique is extremely fast to distinguish from other species in the absence of other physiochemical evaluations (Prasanth et al, 2017).…”

“…The powder analysis exhibited different color under ordinary daylight for different chemical reagents and the change in behavior of the leaf powder with different reagents were detected, and the results are given in (Table 5). The behavior of leaf powder with different chemical reagents is a unique method to detect the presence of adulterants in a crude drug is a fast technique to differentiate from suspicious species (Prasanth et al, 2017).…”

Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Aralia Cachemirica Decne.: A Comparative Study

“…Our study corroborates with the findings of Lim et al, [20] who reported anti-inflammatory activity in the roots of Aralia continentalis. Also, Prasanth et al, [21] determined anti-inflammatory activities of methanolic extract of Aralia racemosa root. Moreover, Lee et al, [19] determined anti-inflammatory potential of Aralia elata.…”