{"id":2025,"date":"2015-03-29T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biomedpharmajournal.org\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2020-04-26T07:47:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T07:47:04","slug":"proximate-analysis-of-leaves-of-vitex-l-from-shendurjana-ghat-of-warud-tahsil-of-maharashtra-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biomedpharmajournal.org\/staging\/vol4no2\/proximate-analysis-of-leaves-of-vitex-l-from-shendurjana-ghat-of-warud-tahsil-of-maharashtra-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Proximate Analysis of Leaves of Vitex L. from Shendurjana (ghat) of Warud Tahsil of Maharashtra State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

India is a rich storehouse of medicinal plants. All natural products can be termed bioactive molecules, as every diverse molecule possesses one kind or multiple kinds of biological oblique pharmacological activities. U.S. and European countries are now realizing the significance of Nature\u2019s Green gift and so they are making patients of herbal drugs.\u00a0 As various parts of Vitex <\/em>L. are used for the treatments of various diseases so has its own identity in traditional drugs practices. Leaves of Vitex<\/em> L. possesses its own identity in medicinal, pharmaceutical and chemical sciences1-10<\/sup>, due to its anti-hyperglycemic,\u00a0 anti-pyretic, analgesic, anti-microbial, expectorant, stimulates the adrenal cortex, soothes itching and insecticidal properties and\u00a0 Leaves of Vitex<\/em> L. are also used for curing various rheumatic problems\u00a0 and for mosquito repellent.\u00a0 Enormous work on natural products was carried out by research group of D.T.Tayade11-19 <\/sup>especially on proximate, phytochemical, physiochemical and spectroscopical analysis of various plants and as a part of research work, presently being undertaken in this laboratory on natural products.\u00a0 It appeared sufficient interesting to carry out proximate analysis of the leaves of Vitex<\/em> L. Solubility of the drug directly hamper the drug absorption, transmission and drug effects and moisture and ash contain also affects these properties hence moisture and ash content and cold water, hot water, 1% NaOH, and 1% HCl solubility of Vitex<\/em> L. leaves sample have been investigated.<\/p>\n

Preparation of Sample<\/strong><\/p>\n

First the site for leaves collection was decided. The whole leaves were collected from same region of Shendurjana (Ghat). Before picking the whole plant, the soil was moistened. The collection of sample was done in between 20th <\/sup>July2011to 30th <\/sup>July2011. \u00a0The leaves of\u00a0 Vitex<\/em> L. were separated by scissor and were shed dried. They were dried at room conditions. The leaves were pulverized in grinding mill having a screen of 5mm diameter hole to achieve particle size 40-60 mesh. This fine powder was treated as a sample powder for various analyses. All chemicals used are of A.R. grade.<\/p>\n

Moisture content and ash content<\/strong><\/p>\n

Silica crucible was taken and it was weighed and kept in oven till it showed constant weight.\u00a0 The leaves sample was analyzed for moisture and ash content by known method12 <\/sup>and the percentage of the moisture and ash\u00a0 of sample is calculated by applying the following formula,<\/p>\n

\"formula.1\"<\/p>\n

Cold water solubility<\/strong>, hot water solubility, 1% NaOH solubility and 1% HCl solubility <\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0 cold water , hot water , 1% NaOH\u00a0 and 1% HCl solubility of leaves sample was analyzed by known method12<\/sup> and percentage of solubility of each sample is calculated by applying the following formula,<\/p>\n

\"Formula.2\"<\/p>\n

The literature survey on Herbal drugs showed that the results obtained during this study are good.<\/p>\n

Table: 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Sr\u00a0 No<\/strong><\/td>\nParameters<\/strong><\/td>\nPercentage (%)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nMoisture content<\/td>\n40.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nAsh content<\/td>\n2.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nCold water solubility<\/td>\n11.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nHot water solubility<\/td>\n14.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n1% NaOH solubility<\/td>\n87.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n1% HCl solubility<\/td>\n95.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n

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