Isolation and Quantification of Chemical Marker of Polygonatum verticillatum: First Report

Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers

E-ISSN: 2215-0846|2|3|216-224

ISSN: 2215-0838

Source: Current Traditional Medicine, Vol.2, Iss.3, 2017-01, pp. : 216-224

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Abstract

Background: Polygonatum verticillatum (Mahameda) is an important ingredient ofAshtawarga and other costly Ayurvedic formulations. Nowadays, due to large scale and indiscriminatecollection of wild material, it has come under the category of endangered plants. Toovercome the scarcity, substitutes of Mahameda are being commonly used in market by manufacturers.These substitutes differ from authentic plant by Ayurvedic and pharmacologic theoryof drug action that leads to lowered efficacy of the formulation along with high charging fromconsumers on pretext of using costly Ashtawarga plants in the formulation.lt;/pgt