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EXTRACTION OF PLANT ALKALOIDS AND CHEMICALS FROM MEDICINAL
PLANTS THROUGH VARIOUS METHODS
HEMANT SHARMA*, AVINASH SHARMA & GAYTRI SONI
School of Agriculture, RNB Global University, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
ABSTRACT
Medicinal plants are very important since pre-historic times. The value of medicinal plants and their obtained drugs is
very important and several chemicals can be obtained from plant parts like a leaf, stems, bark, and root, etc. Some
chemicals are very important like linolenic acid, vincristine, linoleic acid, etc. The properties and its potent products are
very highly vulnerable, powerful, and efficient effective & cardio tonic. The drugs obtained from medicinal plants are
very effective against human diseases and other several neural disorders. They are the chief source of medicinal drugs
which can prevent neuromuscular, sclerosis, antioxidants, and several other infective fungal diseases. Several techniques
like chemical extraction, southern blotting, solvent extraction methods are very useful for the isolation of these
compounds.
KEYWORDS: Highly Vulnerable, Extaction Methods, Neural Disorder, Cardio tonic, Antioxidant & Potent Products
Received: Oct 20, 2021; Accepted: Nov 10, 2021; Published: Nov 22, 2021; Paper Id.: IJASRDEC202131
INTRODUCTION
The medicinal plants are the bone of Indian history. Several medicinal plants are used to produce medicinal drugs
and alkaloids. The properties of drugs are varying because their extraction, chemical structure and properties are
different from each other. In ancient times, several techniques were applied for the extraction of these chemical
compounds (Electrophoresis, 2009). Generally, they are made up of long-chain terpenoids and unsaturated
hydrocarbons. Based on their taste and antioxidant properties(Yubin et al., 2014), they are categorized into different
classes. Different types of techniques are beneficial for the extraction of these alkaloids. Today, several advanced
technologies have been developed for extraction for these compounds like chemical extraction methods, solvent
extraction methods, solvent-solute extraction methods, ninhydrin methods, halides, halogen extraction
methods(Luís et al., 2016), and different other methods have been applied on the basis of its structure and its
polarity basis. The new advanced methods like southern blotting, northern blotting, gel electrophoresis
methods(Electrophoresis, 2009) are well established and frequently applied for the extraction of these chemical
compounds. The nature of these compounds and their structure existence in different forms and show that different
polarity into different solvents like methanol, acetone, ether, alcohol, and other acidic and some basic compounds
are recommended for the isolation of these drugs. The natural drugs are very potent inhibitors of several diseases
like human chronic diseases, colds, flu, kidney stone, gall stone, haemorrhage, and anti-inflammatory
disorders(Vilhena et al., 2015). Some chemicals show high polarity so they can easily dissolve with these alkaloids
and form precipitate formation that takes place into the organic solvents. The potency of these compounds is
different because they will show different covalent interactions, hydrogen bonding, anhydrous bond in polar as well
as nonpolar solvents. Accordingly, the concentration of these chemicals will form different bonds within different
Original Article
International Journal of Agricultural
Science and Research (IJASR)
ISSN (P): 2250-0057; ISSN (E): 2321-0087
Vol. 11, Issue 2, Dec 2021, 263–270
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