4th WCSET-2015 at Japan
Applied Sciences and Engineering:
Title:
Analytical study of arsenic based herbo-mineral
preparation Thalaka karuppu an Indian traditional
medicine
Authors:
N. Kannan, S. Balaji, N. V. Anil Kumar
Abstract:
Thalaka karuppu (TK), is therapeutically used to treat
various diseases like gonorrhea, epilepsy, syphilis,
chronic fever, cancer, tuberculosis, asthma, psoriasis,
and respiratory diseases, etc. This study was aimed to
investigate the physicochemical fingerprint of
commercially available arsenic based herbo-mineral
preparation TK through various analytical techniques.
The Uv-vis absorption peak at 288 nm corresponds to As
(II). The formulation exhibits mixed nature of the
arsenic compounds (AS (I), AS (II), AS (IV)). The
vibrational spectroscopy peaks were observed at 802.23,
1033.77, 1404.08, 1643.24, 2368.42, 2854.45, 2923.88 and
3433.06 (cm-1) has good agreement with arsenic trioxide.
The peaks at finger print region being assigned to
802.23 As-O and As-H (C-H bend) and 1033.77 (C-N
stretching). The average grain size is found to be 30.11
nm using Scherrer formula. The XRD pattern observed
sharp peak at 13.49 and 27.54 attributed to As2. The
morphological investigation by SEM were observed
irregular shaped (nearly spherical, elongated and
interconnected structures) micro/nano sized particles.
The selected portion of the spectrum reveals the
presence of As (77.44 %), Pb (31.19 %) and Sn (-7.70 %)
were evaluated through EDAX. The measured average
diameter of the formulation was found to be 821.8 nm and
width of 86.89 nm with % intensity of 100. The PDI of
the formulation was 0.996. The formulation showed the
zeta potential of -34.9. The spectral, structural and
particle characterization analysis evident that the
resulting morphologies, size diameter and their
dispersity (colloidal stability) significantly helps in
increase the efficacy of the formulation. Further in
detailed in vitro and in vivo study is warranted to know
the bioavailability and binding capacity of the TK
formulation.
Keywords: Thalaka Karuppu,
Physicochemical Property, Analytical Study. Siddha,
Nanoparticles
Pages:
054-055