PHARMACOGNOSY OF SWIETENIA MAHAGONI BARK DRUG

Swietenia mahagoni Jacq. (native to tropical America), a common avenue tree of India, yields a bark drug, used as antipyretic, bitter tonic, astringent, and occasionally as a substitute for Cinchona. The district characteristics of the species are : blackish brown colour; cracks and fissures with bo...

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Autores principales: Sanyal, Manisha, Datta, P. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 1986
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3331464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22557521
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description Swietenia mahagoni Jacq. (native to tropical America), a common avenue tree of India, yields a bark drug, used as antipyretic, bitter tonic, astringent, and occasionally as a substitute for Cinchona. The district characteristics of the species are : blackish brown colour; cracks and fissures with both clean cut and thick recurved edges; irregular wrinkles; splintery and fibrous fractures; bitter taste; compound sieve plates; mostly biseriate rays; abundant rhomboidal crystals; presence of tannin, saponin, lignin and absence of alkaloids.
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spelling pubmed-33314642012-04-27 PHARMACOGNOSY OF SWIETENIA MAHAGONI BARK DRUG Sanyal, Manisha Datta, P. C. Anc Sci Life Original Article Swietenia mahagoni Jacq. (native to tropical America), a common avenue tree of India, yields a bark drug, used as antipyretic, bitter tonic, astringent, and occasionally as a substitute for Cinchona. The district characteristics of the species are : blackish brown colour; cracks and fissures with both clean cut and thick recurved edges; irregular wrinkles; splintery and fibrous fractures; bitter taste; compound sieve plates; mostly biseriate rays; abundant rhomboidal crystals; presence of tannin, saponin, lignin and absence of alkaloids. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 1986 /pmc/articles/PMC3331464/ /pubmed/22557521 Text en Copyright: © Ancient Science of Life http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title PHARMACOGNOSY OF SWIETENIA MAHAGONI BARK DRUG
title_full PHARMACOGNOSY OF SWIETENIA MAHAGONI BARK DRUG
title_fullStr PHARMACOGNOSY OF SWIETENIA MAHAGONI BARK DRUG
title_full_unstemmed PHARMACOGNOSY OF SWIETENIA MAHAGONI BARK DRUG
title_short PHARMACOGNOSY OF SWIETENIA MAHAGONI BARK DRUG
title_sort pharmacognosy of swietenia mahagoni bark drug
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