Quality control of fluid extract and tincture guaco (Mikania glomerata Sprengel)

Author(s)

Adriana de Carvalho Osorio

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Conjunto das Químicas (IQ e FCF) (CQ/DBDCQ)
• Defense date: 2002-04-22

Examining board members

Jorge Luiz Seferin Martins; Magali Benjamin de Araujo; Vladi Olga Consiglieri; Jivaldo do Rosario Matos; Mayumi Eliza Otsuka Sato

• Advisor: Jorge Luiz Seferin Martins

Abstract

The guaco (Mikanina glomerata Sprengel) is a brazilian medicinal plant used in medicines for cough and breathing problems. Because of the interest that these species arouse and the popularity of their use, phytochemical and pharmacological studies are being realized. The objetive of this work was to develop a methodology for the quality control of \"guaco\" fluid extract and tinture, separating the marked substance the coumarin (1,2 - benzopyran), and to research an accurate and exact method that it was easy to execution. First, it was tested the A.O.A.C.(Association of Official Agriculture Chemists) method 10ª ed., an official method for coumarin dosage in vanilin extract, which the result wasn\'t considerated reproductive for \"guaco\" fluid extract and tincture because it shows a coefficient of variation and standard devation very high. Then, a method by first-derivative spectrophotometry was development and it was achieved an accurate, exact and reprodutive result, which the standart devation was less than 1%, the recovery test was around 102% and the linearity coeficient of calibration curve was 0,9951. The derivative spectrophotometric was used to analyse samples acquired in the market and in parallel, tannins content, dry residue content , density and thin layer cromatografy analyse. According to stability studies, it was conclued that the minimum expiry date of \"guaco\" fluid extract and tinture is 2 years. (AU)