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PHYTOCHEMICAL AND PHARMACOGNOSTICAL STUDY OF KARANJA (PONGAMIA PINNATA LINN.) SEED

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  • The International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Bio-Science

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  • 2013

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Karanja (Pongamia pinnata) an ancient plant described in Vedas, Samhita and in many Nighantu is a very important medicinal plant. Ethnobotanically it is used in many diseases viz. Diabetes, diarrhea, skin diseases as scabies etc. It is described in Susruta Samhita in Prameha chikitsa and also in many nighantus. So here we are using Karanja for treatment of Prameha and so we are standardizing it for its identity, purity and to prove therapeutic action as well. Pharmacognosy is the study of medicines derived from natural sources. Under this pharmacognosy, pharmacology and phytochemistry are necessary for authentification of crude drug. Research work was carried out to find the phytochemical constituents and its antidiabetic activity. For this dried seeds of Karanja were taken and then grinded to make fine powder of it, later its ethanolic extract was prepared in Soxhlet apparatus. The results of preliminary phytochemical screening of the ethanolic extract revealed the presence of alkaloids, carbohydrates, flavonoids, steroids, saponins, triterpenoids and tannins. So we may conclude that drug is rationale for anti-diabetic medicinal use.
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