World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

SEPARATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF ACTIVE CONSTITUENTS OF CALOTROPIS GIGANTEA LATEX, BY HPLC, FTIR, UV-VISIBLE AND CLASSICAL TECHNIQUES.

Ramkrushna P. Pawar*

ABSTRACT

Calotropis gigantea is a well known Indian medicinal plant, distributed in most parts of India. Medicinally important parts of this plant are flower, terminal leaf pairs, root with root bark and latex. Out of that the most significant part which drew attention of researchers is latex because of its medicinal properties. Some parts of plant have laxative property and beneficial in skin diseases, promotes digestive power. It is a very good purgative, in ancient ayurvedic medicine, the plant Calotropis gigantea is known as “Sweta Arka” and Calotropis procera as “Raktha Arka”. Both of them are often similar in their botanical aspects and also have similar pharmacological effects. In present work Isolation and Characteration of calotropis gigantea latex, were done by HPLC, FTIR, UVVisible and classical techniques.

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