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Pharmacognostic Evaluation of the Roots of Berberis chitria Lindl.  

Srivastava, Sharad Kumar (Pharmacognosy & Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute)
Rawat, Ajay Kumar Singh (Pharmacognosy & Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute)
Srivastava, Manjoosha (Pharmacognosy & Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute)
Mehrotra, Shanta (Pharmacognosy & Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute)
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Natural Product Sciences / v.12, no.1, 2006 , pp. 19-23 More about this Journal
Abstract
Berberis chitria (family Berberidaceae) has a close affinity with B. aristata, used in traditional systems of medicine as a drug 'Daruharidra' for skin disease, jaundice, affection of eyes, and rheumatism. Keeping this in view, in the present study attempts have been made to identify marker characters of B. chitria in order to differentiate the two species. Some of the diagnostic features of the root are patches of pericyclic fibre, pitted sclerieds and berberine containing cells and heterocyclic medullary rays. Besides, the physicochemical characters such as total ash; acid insoluble ash; alcohol and water soluble extractive; tannins; sugar and starch percentages has shown variations. The percentage of berberine as berberine hydrochloride was also calculated through HPTLC densitometric method and it was found little higher than B. aristata and B. asiatica i.e. 3.16%. Thus, this species can be utilized as a possible substitute to Daruharidra.
Keywords
Berberis chitria; HPTLC; Daruharidra; substitute;
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