Glycyrrhiza glabra (root)

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Revision as of 20:41, 27 February 2014

Contents

Nomenclature

Botanical Voucher Specimen

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Glycyrrhiza glabra - Tropicos.jpg
Source: Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 27 Feb 2014 <http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100253567> [1]

Organoleptic Characteristics

Color: Unpeeled – yellowish or purplish brown to dark brown externally and yellowish internally. Peeled – pale yellow.

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Aroma/Odor: Characteristic

Flavor/Taste: Sweet, sugary

Source: American Herbal Products Association. March 2013. Organoleptic Analysis of Herbal Ingredients. AHPA: Silver Spring, MD [3]

Macroscopic Characteristics

"...Root nearly cylindrical up to 2 cm in diameter, externally wrinkled with patches of cork. Fracture, coarsely fibrous in bark and splintery in wood."

Source: Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd [4]
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G. glabra - Flora von Deutschland.jpg
Source: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz- Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1885) [5]

Glycyrrhiza glabra - foliage - eol.jpg
Foliage
Source: Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org/data_objects/2447928 [6]

Glycyrrhiza glabra - inflorescence - eol.jpg
Inflorescence
Source: Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org/data_objects/24932881 [7]
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G. glabra - Dried Root - Quality Assessment of Selected IndianMedicinal Plants.png
Dried Roots
Source: Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd http://www.naturalremedy.com/ [8]

G. glabra - dried root - EOL 76628 orig.jpg
Dried Roots 2
Source: Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org/data_objects/19163752 [9]

Microscopic Characteristics

"Rhizome: Transverse section of stolon more or less rounded. Phellem severeal layered with tabular cells; outer layers filled with reddish brown contents, inner colourless. Phellogen indistinct; phelloderm three to five layered, collenchymatous; some of the cells contain calcium oxalate and minute starch grains. Secondary phloem with numerous concentrically arranged bundles of phloem fibres and surrounded by a parenchymatous sheath containing prisms of calcium oxalate. Medullary rays distinct, bi-to multiseriate, parenchymatous, in continuation with those of xylem. The rays are narrower in xylem and wider in phloem region. Xylem consists of vessels, fibres and lignified wood parenchyma. The unpeeled drug shows the presence of polyhedral tubular brownish cork cells. In case of stolons, the pith is present and is parenchymatous. The root is characterized by the presence of tetrarch xylem and absence of pith.

Powder Microscopy: It shows plenty of starch grains, hexagonal crystals vessel elements are with reticulate wall pitting."

Source: Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd [10]
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Glycyrrhiza Root - NR transverse section.JPG
Transverse section
Source: Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd http://www.naturalremedy.com/ [11]

Glycyrrhiza Powder microscopy-starch granules - NR.jpg
Starch granules and hexagonal crystals in powder
Source: Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd http://www.naturalremedy.com/ [12]

Glycyrrhiza Powder microscopy - vessels - NR.jpg
Vessels with reticulate thickening in powder
Source: Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd http://www.naturalremedy.com/ [13]

High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification

Supplementary Information

Sources

  1. ↑ Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 27 Feb 2014 <http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100253567>
  2. ↑ Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd http://www.naturalremedy.com/
  3. ↑ American Herbal Products Association. March 2013. Organoleptic Analysis of Herbal Ingredients. AHPA: Silver Spring, MD http://www.ahpa.org/
  4. ↑ Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd http://www.naturalremedy.com/
  5. ↑ Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz- Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1885)
  6. ↑ Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org/data_objects/2447928
  7. ↑ Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org/data_objects/24932881
  8. ↑ Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd http://www.naturalremedy.com/
  9. ↑ Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org/data_objects/19163752
  10. ↑ Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd http://www.naturalremedy.com/
  11. ↑ Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd http://www.naturalremedy.com/
  12. ↑ Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd http://www.naturalremedy.com/
  13. ↑ Natural Remedies Pvt Ltd http://www.naturalremedy.com/
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