Elettaria cardamomum (fruit)
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Aromatic odor; taste agreeably warm and aromatic.}} | Aromatic odor; taste agreeably warm and aromatic.}} | ||
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| characteristics=Fruit a capsule, light to medium green, elliptical, triangular, striated. Seeds oblong-ovoid, irregularly angular, rugose, brown to dark brown adhering to a colorless membranous aril. | }} | | characteristics=Fruit a capsule, light to medium green, elliptical, triangular, striated. Seeds oblong-ovoid, irregularly angular, rugose, brown to dark brown adhering to a colorless membranous aril. | }} | ||
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| description=[''Elettaria cardamomum''] powder is greenish-brown; consisting chiefly of coarse angular fragments of cells of the reserve layers and seed-coat; cells of endosperm and perisperm filled with compound starch grains, the individual grains from 0.001 to 0.004 mm. in diameter; fragments of seed with dark brown stone cells, which are polygonal in surface view and about 0.02 mm. in diameter; in mounts made with hydrated chloral T.S. single prisms or crystals in rosette aggregates may separate in the cells of the endosperm and perisperm; fragments of spiral tracheae with accompanying slightly lignified bast-fibers relatively few. [...] The powdered seeds exhibit abundant, minute, angular starch grains, often compacted into masses; but no spiral vessels, sclerenchymatous fibres, or strongly elongated selerenehymatous cells (absence of pericarps).}} | | description=[''Elettaria cardamomum''] powder is greenish-brown; consisting chiefly of coarse angular fragments of cells of the reserve layers and seed-coat; cells of endosperm and perisperm filled with compound starch grains, the individual grains from 0.001 to 0.004 mm. in diameter; fragments of seed with dark brown stone cells, which are polygonal in surface view and about 0.02 mm. in diameter; in mounts made with hydrated chloral T.S. single prisms or crystals in rosette aggregates may separate in the cells of the endosperm and perisperm; fragments of spiral tracheae with accompanying slightly lignified bast-fibers relatively few. [...] The powdered seeds exhibit abundant, minute, angular starch grains, often compacted into masses; but no spiral vessels, sclerenchymatous fibres, or strongly elongated selerenehymatous cells (absence of pericarps).}} | ||
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| characteristics=Epidermal cells of pericarp, thin-walled; prismatic crystals of calcium oxalate. | | characteristics=Epidermal cells of pericarp, thin-walled; prismatic crystals of calcium oxalate. | ||
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Nomenclature
Elettaria cardamomum (L.) Maton var. cardamomum Zingiberaceae
Syn. Amomum cardamomum L.; Elettaria cardamomum L. var. miniscula Burkill; Elettaria cardamomum L. var. minus Watt
Standardized common name (English): cardamom
Ayurvedic name(s): ela
Organoleptic Characteristics
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Macroscopic Characteristics
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Microscopic Characteristics
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High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification
Cardamom (seed) (Elettaria cardamomum L. Maton) Lane Assignments Lane 1 (1 μl) Linalool ~0.1% in methanol; Lane 2 (2 μl) Elettaria cardamomum L. Maton-1 (seed)(Guatemala); Lane 3 (2 μl) Elettaria cardamomum L. Maton-2 (seed)(Guatemala); Lane 4 (2 μl) Elettaria cardamomum L. Maton-3 (seed), Lane 5 (2 μl) Elettaria cardamomum L. Maton-3 (seed); Lane 6 (2 μl) Elettaria cardamomum L. Maton-4 (seed), Lane 7 (1 μl) Elettaria cardamomum L. Maton-4 (seed; Lane 8 (3 μl) Eugenol~0.1% in methanol, these references have been authenticated by macroscopic, microscopic &/or TLC studies according to the reference sources cited below held at Alkemists Laboratories, Costa Mesa, CA. Stationary Phase Silica gel 60, F254, 10 x 10 cm HPTLC plates Mobile Phase toluene: ethyl acetate [9.5/0.5] Sample Preparation Method 0.5g+5ml dichloromethane, sonicate/centrifuge/decant, evaporate to dryness with N2, qs with 1.0 ml Toluene Detection Method Vanillin/H2SO4 Reagent -> 110° C 5 min -> UV 365 nm Reference see Medicinal Spices, Teuscher, E., 2006, CRC Press or The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India Part I Volume I
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Supplementary Information
Sources
- ↑ Steven Yeager, Mountain Rose Herbs http://www.mountainroseherbs.com
- ↑ Schneider, A. (1921) The Microanalysis of Powdered Vegetable Drugs, 2nd ed.
- ↑ United States Dispensatory (1918)
- ↑ United States Dispensatory (1918)
- ↑ Steven Yeager, Mountain Rose Herbs http://www.Mountain Rose Herbs.com
- ↑ United States Dispensatory (1918)
- ↑ Schneider, A. (1921) The Microanalysis of Powdered Vegetable Drugs, 2nd ed.
- ↑ Amy Brush, Traditional Medicinals http://www.traditionalmedicinals.com
- ↑ Amy Brush, Traditional Medicinals http://www.traditionalmedicinals.com
- ↑ Amy Brush, Traditional Medicinals http://www.traditionalmedicinals.com
- ↑ Elan M. Sudberg, Alkemist Laboratories http://www.alkemist.com