PHYSICOCHEMICAL, PHYTOCHEMICAL & CHROMATOGRAPHY STUDY OF DIFFERENT PARTS OF BRAHMKAMAL (SAUSSUREA OBVALLATA (DC.) EDGEW.) – THE STATE FLOWER OF UTTARAKHAND
Yadav Chhavi*, Chaubey Suresh and Singh D. C.
ABSTRACT
Brahmkamal {Saussurea obvallata (DC). Edgew.} is State Flower of Uttarakhand and also known as King of Himalayan flowers. The plant is distributed at an altitudinal range of 3000-4800 m. It is a very useful plant in prospective of traditional ayurvedic medicines, largely used by the natives residing in Himalayas. The plant has an undervalued status in the scientific community. Brahmkamal an ethnoreligious medicinal herb of Himalaya is selected for the present study to standardize the medicinal herb. A very limited work was done before, may be due to its difficult collection. Collection of plant is too difficult due to its presence in the alpine range of Himalaya at an altitude of 3000-4800 m only in period of mid monsoon this is also a reason for its ignored status in scientific community. Standardization of medicinal herb is quiet important. This present study is an attempt to find out potential measures such as Physicochemical, Phytochemical, Chromatography study of Brahmkamal to make protocol of standardization and quality evaluation. As the standardization protocol of Brahmkamal (Saussurea obvallata) is not mentioned in API, the obtained data would be helpful to standardize the drug for next study.
Keywords: Brahmkamal, Physicochemical, Phytochemical, chromatography.
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