Aloe vera (filtered leaf/inner leaf juice)
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| + | | description='''Plants:''' Perennials; stems 1.5 M. (5°) high, woody, rough from leaf-remnants; leaves glaucous-green, often with darker spots, thick, succulent, bayonet-shaped, margin with reddish spines or serratures; flowers racemose or spicate, tubular, yellowish, orange-red; stamens 6, unequal, 3 longer than corolla. | ||
| + | '''Insippated Juice:''' [...] (''A. vera''): ''Curaçao'', blackish-brown, opaque masses, fracture uneven, waxy, resinous; 60 p.c. soluble in cold water (purplish-red); with nitric acid--deep red solution. | ||
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| + | | description=Powder [''A. vera''] reddish-brown, ... microscopically (in almond oil) ... reddish-brown irregular, angular more or less opaque fragments. | ||
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=High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification= | =High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification= | ||
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Nomenclature
Aloe vera (L.) Burm. f. Liliaceae
Standardized common name (English): aloe vera
Botanical Voucher Specimen
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Organoleptic Characteristics
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Macroscopic Characteristics
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Microscopic Characteristics
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High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification
Supplementary Information
Sources
- ↑ MOBOT, Tropicos.org http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100002694
- ↑ MOBOT, Tropicos.org http://www.tropicos.org/Image/18259
- ↑ Culbreth, D. (1917) A Manual of Materia Media and Pharmacology, 6th ed.
- ↑ Culbreth, D. (1917) A Manual of Materia Media and Pharmacology, 6th ed.
- ↑ Culbreth, D. (1917) A Manual of Materia Media and Pharmacology, 6th ed.
