PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING AND PHARMACOGNOSTICAL STUDIES OF SOLANUM XANTHOCARPUM

Abstract

Kantkari (Solanum xanthocarpum) of the family Solanaceae is one of the ‘dasamoola’ and used drug in Ayurveda. Dasamoola means combination of ten plant roots together. It comprises roots of fine big or major trees (Brihat panchmoola) and roots of fine small or major herbs (Laghu panchmoola). In traditional system of medicine, different parts like leaf, stem, flower, roots of solanum xanthocarpum and plant as a whole are used. The drug is used as an antiasthmatic, hypotensive and cytotoxic activity, hypoglycaemic, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor activity. The result of physico chemical parameters (Loss on drying:4.1%, WSE:16.5% and ASE: 18%) were found to be under WHO guidelinese. The phytochemical studies revealed the presence of active constituents’ alkaloids, carbohydratye, steroid and flavonoids and their HPTLC fingerprinting revealed that active constituents are fully active in methanolic extracts which are obtained in different colours having spotted on different Rf values. Hence, it is concluded that this drug supposed to be great beneficial and boon for our society.