Morphological and Physico-chemical Comparison of Some Nutrient and Tonic Drugs

수종(數種) 자양(滋養) 강장생약류(强壯生藥類)의 형태(形態) 및 이화학적(理化學的) 성상(性狀) 비교(比較)

Anatomical and physico-chemical properties of some nutrient and tonic crude drugs have been estimated and compared. Resin duct and druse crystal were observed more in Acanthopanax Cortex than in Ginseng Radix. Bast fiber bundle and solitary crystals were abandantly present in Glycyrrhizae Radix. Mucilage crude drugs contained mucilage ducts and bundles of raphides as common components and their arrangements of vascular bundles were different. TLC analysis showed different patterns of saponin, flavonoid, ${\gamma}-aminobutyric$ acid and sitosterols.