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Pharmacognosy-2 (PG303) Level 2 Clinical Pharmacy-Pharm D

Underground organs

Filix mas سخرسلا Ginseng roots Aconite Root قناخ Marshmallow Calumba Root
ركذلا جنسنيجلا بدلا Root )Radix Calumbae ,
(
)Male fern ,Apsidium ( (Radix Aconiti, (Althaea Radix) Colombo Root
Monkshood Wolf's bane
(
Origin Carefully dried ➢ The two most Dried tuberous roots of Obtained from Dried sliced roots of

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rhizomes and frond commonly used Aconitum napellus L . Althaea officinalis Jateorhiza palmata
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bases of Dryopteris are : family Ranunculaceae family Malvaceae family
filix-mas, 1) The American Menispermaceae
family Polypodiaceae Ginseng
Panax quinquefolius
2) The Asian Ginseng
Panax ginseng
family Araliaceae

Active ▪ 5 % filmarone ▪ Saponins ➢ 0.2-1.5%terpene ester ▪ Mucilage (the ▪ Yellow crystalline
=

constituents ▪ Filicic acid and its (Ginsenosides alkaloids main constituent alkaloids
lactone filicin. Panaxosides) the most important are: (25-30%) ) Columbamine,
▪ Fixed oils ▪ Phytoestrogens. ▪ Aconitine (the most ▪ Starch ,Pectin , jateorhizine and
.
▪ High molecular toxic) Flavonoids. palmatime)
▪ Bitter principles
weight ▪ Picraconitine and (Columbin and
Polysaccharides ) Aconine (less toxic) Chasmantherin)

glycans) ▪ Starch (35%) and

▪ Acetylenic mucilage
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compounds ▪ No tannin
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