ANALYTICAL AND CHEMICAL STANDARDISATION STUDIES ON TERMINALIA CATAPPA BARK
Since century's traditional medicines has become an integral part of the human society. In the last few decades there has been an exponential growth in the field of phytotherapeutics. Lack of standardization and validation reduces the international recognition and market potentials of herbal medicines. In the recent years considerable research has been focused towards the standardization and validation aspects. In the present study, attempts are made to evaluate chemical standards for Terminalia catappa bark which has been reported to possess activities like anticancer, anti HIV reverse transcriptase, hepato protective, anti inflammatory, anti hepatitis, anti diabetic and aphrodisiac activity. The aqueous extract of the bark is subjected to physicochemical and phytochemical standardization studies. Identification of active principles is achieved through analytical standardization techniques such as HPTLC finger printing and GC MS analysis. The data of the results obtained will be presented and discussed. Such studies will give valuable insights regarding the production of standard herbal products and also increase their market potentials,