title: Tlc - spectrophotometric analysis of strychnine and brucine from the ayurvedic pills of nux vomica.
abstract: Ayurvedic preparations claim on their label only the quantity of crude drugs and not the quantity of active ingredients present therein. So work was taken up to find the percentage of strychnine and brucine from Ayurvedic pills of Nux vomica powder by TLC spectrophotometric analysis, which study has not been reported earlier. However, the literature survey only revealed the following work.
authors.affiliation: Phytochemistry Lab., Goa College of Pharmacy, Panaji - Goa - 403 001, India.
authors.forename: R V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Gaitonde
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Joshi