Short Communication
Year: 2019 | Month: October | Volume: 9 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 247-257
Standardization of Poly-Herbal Compound (Aerosol) Using Raman Spectrometry and Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
Ahmed Nasreen1, Kajaria Divya2
1MD Scholar, Department of Kayachikitsa, All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi.
2Assistant Professor, Department of Kayachikitsa, All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi.
Corresponding Author: Ahmed Nasreen
ABSTRACT
Standardization of drugs refers to the confirmation of its identity and determination of its quality and purity. There are various procedures used for the standardization of drugs as there is increase in the advancement of various technologies and chemical knowledge of the various methods. Botanical, chemical, spectroscopic and biological methods are used for estimating active constituents present in the crude drugs in addition to its physical constants. Ayurveda is the science which deals with a vast variety of plants which are used to cure different types of ailments but the major problem faced by ayurvedic drugs is the standardization. Therefore, it is a need for the researchers in the medical field of Ayurveda to emphasise on evaluation and characterization and standardization of various plants and the formulations. Aerosol is the suspension of solid particles or liquid droplets in the air or any gas. In this study, an ayurvedic aerosol compound of four herbal drugs has been prepared using hot percolation technique and standardization was done using Raman spectroscopy and Gas chromatography mass spectrometry. The study reveals the presence of different phytochemical compounds and 40 types of metabolites in the compound.
Key words: Standardization, Ayurveda, aerosol, Raman spectroscopy, metabolites herbal drugs,