Micro evolution of bitter taste domain drugs.
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2014-07
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Ayurveda classified the drugs in various ways and one of which the classification is based on
Rasa (taste) dominancy. Rasa is essential to identify drugs and to know its therapeutic
application. In this study the drug has been selected according to Charaka classification of
Tikta Rasa (bitter taste) drugs with an aim to find out the similar characters among all the
drugs having bitter Rasa dominancy. Till date there is no data available regarding the
pharmacognostical evaluation in concern bitter taste. For the first time selected five bitter
drugs are subjected to various pharmacognostical evaluation, result reveals that Organoleptic
characters of all five drugs give bitter taste, microscopic evaluation revealed that presence of
starch grain, vessels, fiber , brown content are dominant in all five raw drug and all the five
powder subjected to alkaloid test by using dragondroff reagent and give positive result for
alkaloids.
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Alkaloid, Bitter, Microscopic, Organoleptic
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Bhardwaj Shivangi, Shukla V J, Harisha C R, Jani Switu. Micro evolution of bitter taste domain drugs. Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical & Biological Research. 2014 Jul-Sept ; 2 (3): 65-72.