COMPARATIVE PHARMACOGNOSTICAL AND PHYSICO-PHYTOCHEMICAL STANDARDIZATION ON LEAF OF IXORA COCCINEA LINN. AND IXORA ARBOREA ROXB.

Abstract

The knowledge of the medicinal plants used by tribal people has great values. Presentation of old concepts and folk claims needs extensive experimental research work. So, To avoid the errors due to other affecting factors and to test the genuinity of folklore claim with respect to their pharmacognostical and phytochemical study. I. coccinea leaves are used to treat various disorders like cough, asthma, catarrhal bronchitis. Their Anti- inflammatory, Anti-tussive, Anti-asthmatic, Anti-meiotic activity is well established. I. arbore shows antiviral, hypotensive and spasmolytic activity. The present study was aimed to compare the pharmacognostical and phytochemical aspect of I. coccinea and I. arbore leaves, including their morphology, microscopic characteristics, physico-phytochemical parameters, and HPTLC fingerprint. It revealed that they had basically similar pharmacognostical characteristics but with certain Morphological differences. The present study underwrites to the standardization and verification of these medicinal plants.