Fringe tree FHP / Chionanthus virginica PPH

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Pharmacopée française - Préparations homéopathiques
02/07/2012

Sujets

• Anglais
• Médecine

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• Publié par: ansm-pharmacopee-francaise
• Publié le: 02 juillet 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 11
• Licence : En savoir +
  Paternité, pas d'utilisation commerciale, pas de modification
• Langue: English

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FRINGE TREE FOR HOMOEOPATHIC PREPARATIONS   CHIONANTHUS VIRGINIANA FOR HOMOEOPATHIC PREPARATIONS   Chionanthus virginica ad praeparationes homoeopathicas  Other Latin name used in homoeopathy:hCoiuh santn   DEFINITION  Dried root bark, entire or fragmented, ofChionanthus virginicaL.  Content: minimum 2.0 per cent of total dihydroxycinnamic derivatives, expressed as rosmarinic acid (C 18 H 16 O 8 ; M (dried drug).r 360)    IDENTIFICATION  A. The root bark of fringe tree possesses raised, circular lenticels. The outside is grey-brown to red-brown in colour. The bark fragments are curved or flattened, dense and 2-6 mm wide. The more or less scaly and rough outside surface shows transverse wrinkles and small root scars. The inside surface is yellow-orange with irregular striations and sometimes circular depressions. The fracture is short, hard, and roughly granular. The broken surface is yellow-white to light brown.  B. Reduce the bark of the root to a powder (355). Examine under a microscope usingchloral hydrate solution R (2.8.23)The powder contains fragments of phellem consisting of stacked. polyhedral cells, cortical parenchyma with ovoid cells containing starch grains, numerous sclereid cells, isolated or in clusters, with extremely thick, grooved walls.  C. Thin-layer chromatography (27.2.2).   Test solution.To 3 g of powdered (355) herbal drug, add 30 mL of ethanol(65 per centV/V)R. Heat to 60 °C on a water-bath under a reflux condenser for 15 min. Allow to cool. Filter.   Reference solution.Dissolve 5 mg ofaescin R and 5 mg ofα-hederin Rin 10 mL of methanol R.   Plate:TLCsilica gel plate R (5-40 µm) [orTLCsilica gel plate R (2 -10 µm)].   Mobile phase: R, methanol R, glacial acetic acid R, methylene chloride R water (2:3:8:15/V/V/VV).   Application: 20 µL [or 10 µL], as bands.   Development: over a path of 10 cm [or 7 cm]. ____________________________     The General Chapters and General Monographs of the European Pharmacopoeia and Preamble of the French Pharmacopoeia apply.   F r e n c h P h a r m a c o p o e i a 2 0 1 2