PRELIMINARY PHYTOCHEMICAL AND PHYSIOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF AERIAL PARTS OF SARCOCOCCA SALIGNA
Suradhya Jain*, Dr. Sarita Karole*, Dr. Anup K. Chakraborty and Dr. Kavita R. Loksh
ABSTRACT
Ayurveda–Ancient Science of Life is alleged to be widespread for last 5000 years in India. It is one of the most important systems of medication in the earth (Kokate et al., 2007). Atharveda (around 1200 BC), Charak Samhita and Sushrut Samhita (100-500 BC) are the key classics that give full imagery of over 700 herbs. Researches on pharmacognosy, chemistry, pharmacology and clinical therapeutics have been conceded out on Ayurvedic medicinal plants and many of the major pharmaceutical corporations have transformed their strategies in favour of natural products drug innovation. Many drugs have entered the International Pharmacopoeia through the study of Ethnopharmacology and traditional medicine. The Research and Development plunge in the pharmaceutical sector is focused on progress of new innovative/indigenous plant-based drugs through exploration of leads from the established system of medicine Dr. V. E. Tyler has defined medicinal herbs as “crude drugs of vegetable beginning utilized for the treatment of disease states, often of a never-ending nature, or to attain or keep a condition of better health”. In spite of the great advances observed in current medicine in recent decades, medicinal plants have played a key role in globe health. Plant based drug can be used truthfully, i.e., they may be together, dried and used as remedial agents (crude drug), or the constituents/active morality separated by various part process, which are in employment as medicines. The active principle or compounds; that may be carbohydrate, glycosides, tannins, lipids, alkaloids, etc.; with analogous structure and activity are manufactured chemically to produce the synthetic drugs used in allopathic or contemporary system of medicine.
Keywords: Carbohydrate, Glycosides, Tannins, Lipids, Alkaloids.
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