Pharmacognostical & Pharmaceutical Evaluation of Apamarga Mula Yonivarti
Journal Title: International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharmaceutical Chemistry - Year 2019, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
Background: Achyranthes aspera belonging to Amaranthaceae family has widely used medicinal purposes. It is distributed throughout the tropical world. Seed, root, leaf, whole plant can be used for medicinal purpose. Apamarga plants are having abortificant activity as nbutanol extract is having contraceptive efficiency in researchs. Acharya Vrindamadhava has told if women keeps the Apamarga mula in her yoni then she will have Sukhprasava. Aim: The present study aims at pharmacognostical & pharmaceutical evaluation of Apamarga mula yonivarti. Material & Method: Apamarga mula yonivarti is studied for its macroscopical and microscopical characters. Microscopical studies include cell structure and their arrangement, physicochemical parameters include pH, loss on drying, water soluble extract, ash value, alcohol soluble extract, HPTLC. Result: The pharmacognostical study showed border pitted vessel, cork in surface view, pollen grain of honey, prismatic crystal, septate fibre, starch grains. The pH value of Apamarga mula yonivarti was 5, Water soluble extract was 20.75 %w/w, Loss on drying was 8.33 %w/w, alcohol soluble extract was 79.83% and High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) at 254nm and 366nm showed 11 & 3 spots respectively. Conclusion: The pharmacognostical and pharmaceutical screening of Apamarga mula yonivarti showed quality of preparation was standard.
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Yadav Rachana, Dei Laxmipriya, Harisha C. R, Shukla V. J
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