Pharmacognostic Investigation and Authentication of Potentially Utilized Fruit Spondias mangifera (willd)

Abstract

Spondias mangifera Willd (Hog-plum) a native plant of Indo-Malaysia is best known for its fruits, commonly used in culinary preparations such as curries, condiments, jams, sherbet in countries where the tree grows naturally. Green fruit is pickled in brine which is rich of minerals, acids, phenolic compounds, flavonoids, vitamins, peptides and reducing sugars. The fruit is aromatic, astringent, refrigerant traditionally used to give tone and treatment of rheumatic articular and muscular pain. It is given in preventing vomiting and in the treatment of dysentery and diarrhoea. This study deals with the pharmacognostical evaluation and some potential application of its fresh/dried fruits which includes macro and microscopic studies, determination of physicochemical parameters of the extract using TLC fingerprinting.