To isolate and identify the structures of the active ingredients and to verify the pharmacological effects of these pure compounds
The objectif from chemical investigation for the medicinal plant is to contribuated and correleated the activity of this plant and the chemical composition asm phenolic compoundsm flavonoidsm flovonols...
Secondary metabolites such as alkaloids and polyphenols represent a great interest.
Chemistry is necessary to isolate the active compounds present in the plant that is mainly responsible for particular pharmacological activity. Only identification of active compound will enable the study of structure activity relationship
Plants contains many chemicals:
1. to isolate, elucidate structure and identify the compound plant has.
2. to confirm medicinal values of plant, one has to undergo investigation of pharmacological activity.
Phytochemical assay of a drug shows the group of phytoconstituents like glycosides,terpenes,saponins ,etc.The presence of these groups and aspecific phytocontituents help determine its action /efficacy for particular diseases.
Phytochemical analysis is intended to screen, identify, extract and isolate the phyto-constituents to evaluate the therapeutic potential of the plant and to develop phytochemical standards for the medicinal plant materials for quality control purpose.
Dear Researchers,
Phytochemical investigations provide with a chemical fingerprint of the said herbal extract. This chemical fingerprinting can be done by qualitative analysis and further can be validated by quantitative assays too.
This will also help in standardization of the herbal extract under study and hence will aid in removing further batch-to-batch variations.
Also, if we know the phytochemistry of a phyto-extract, then it becomes easier to analyse its activity against a given physiological target (Elucidation of its Mechanism of action).
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Pallavi Thakur
Researcher
INMAS, DRDO
Dear Researcher,
1. To find what is acting as medicine in the plant
2. To standardize the medicinal plant extract
3. To ascertain possible medicinal actions
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