QUALITY EVALUATION OF NYCTANTHES ARBOR-TRISTIS EXTRACTS BY UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPY AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE THIN-LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES

Abstract

Nyctanthes Arbor-tristis is one of the most useful medicinal plants in India. Each part of the plant has some important medicinal value and is thus commercially exploitable. The popular medicinal use of this plant is anti-inflammatory, anti-pyretic, anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-allergic and diabetes control and it is used as several diseases. The present research is to isolate plant pigments by different extraction techniques and to focus on the identification and determination of the purity, quality, quantity by using UV-Visible spectroscopy and High performance thin-layer chromatography technique. From the results obtained by the above analytical techniques it is observed that Soxhlet extraction technique showed better results in HPTLC when compared to masceration technique.