Pharmacognostical Investigation on Fruits of Apium graveolens L.: An Ayurvedic Herb

Abstract

Herbs are the resources of biologically or pharmacologically active components that are conventionally used to treat various ailments. Apium graveolens is being significantly used in “Ayurvedic system of medicine”. Since these medicinal herbs are collected by untutored personals on the basis of their Sanskrit/ local names, there occurs a great chance of confusion or misidentification due to unawareness and related vernacular names. To assist exact and effortless recognition of drugs, Pharmacognostical characters involving macroscopical, microscopical and physiochemical parameters were studied. This helped in studying quality control parameters for sample identification with determination of their quality and purity.