ISOLATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF BERGENIN FROM SYZYGIUM CUMINI STEM BARK

Abstract

Diabetes is one of the major health problems, the world is facing today and its rising rate necessitates alternative treatment methods. An anti-diabetic chemical constituent of Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels, bergenin was chosen for the study. The present study aims to isolate, characterize and quantify bergenin from methanol extract of stem bark of S. cumini. This compound was extracted, characterized by spectroscopic methods and estimated quantitatively by HPTLC.