ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Year : 2011 | Volume : 2 | Issue : 1 | Page : 37--41
Pharmacognostical evaluation of Barringtonia acutangula leaf
Dharamaraj Padmavathi, Lakshmi Susheela, Rajkishore Vijaya Bharathi
Department of Pharmacognosy, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Rajkishore Vijaya Bharathi
Department of Pharmacognosy, Madras Medical College, Chennai - 600 003, Tamil Nadu
India
Barringtonia acutangula (L.) Gaertn. (Family: Lecythidaceae) is an evergreen tree with simple, alternate leaves, long pendulous racemes, dark scarlet flowers, and ellipsoid to ovoid berries containing one ovoid black seed. The present study deals with a detailed pharmacognostical study on the leaf of the crude drug, B. acutangula. Morphoanatomy of the leaf was studied using light and confocal microscopy and World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on quality control methods for medicinal plant materials. Literature reveals that the phytoconstituents like tanginol, barrinic acid, and barringenic acid are present in the wood and fruits of this plant. Our preliminary phytochemical studies of the powdered leaves revealed the presence of terpenes, flavanoids, carbohydrates, tannins, steroids, and glycosides. The physico-chemical, morphological, histological parameters, and High Performance-Thin Layer Chromatographic (HPTLC) profile presented in this paper may be proposed as parameters to establish the authenticity of B. acutangula and can possibly help to differentiate the drug from its other species and the pharmacognostic profile of the leaves presented here will assist in standardization viz., quality, purity, and sample identification.
How to cite this article:
Padmavathi D, Susheela L, Bharathi RV. Pharmacognostical evaluation of Barringtonia acutangula leaf.Int J Ayurveda Res 2011;2:37-41 |
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Padmavathi D, Susheela L, Bharathi RV. Pharmacognostical evaluation of Barringtonia acutangula leaf. Int J Ayurveda Res [serial online] 2011 [cited 2013 Apr 20 ];2:37-41
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