Element composition of some types raw materials of Aesculus hippocastanum l.

Author(s):  V.Ya. Yatsyuk, Kursk State Medical University, Kursk, Russia

O.A. Eletskaya, Kursk State Medical University, Kursk, Russia, elka-new@yandex.ru

Issue:  Volume 40, №26

Rubric:  Pharmaceutical Sciences

Annotation:  The article presents the results of studies of elemental composition of some kinds of raw horse chestnut (flowers, leaves). Preliminary research into raw materials studied genus Aesculus L., grown in the central black earth region of Russia, it was revealed the presence of biologically active substances belonging to different classes: pigments, higher fatty acids, derivatives of α-and γ-pyrone, phenolcarboxylic acids, free sugars, organic acids, polysaccharides, including amino acids, tannins. Plants are promising sources of getting natural mineral complex for human body that determined the importance of obtaining information about the content of macro-and microelements in the studied species. Elemental composition was determined using semi-quantitative spectral analysis method of evaporation on DFS-spectrograph 8-1. To define the individual elements used Atlas of spectral lines and Spectra-standards. As a result of the carried out research in all studied species of raw material were found macro (K, Ca, P, Na) and trace elements (Fe, Al, Mg, Cu, Zn, Pb, Ba, Sr, B, Mn, Ni, V, Cr, Zr, Ga, Be), 9 of which are essential trace elements (K, Na, Ca, Mg, P, Cu, Zn, Mn). Studied kinds of raw of Aesculus hippocastanum L. have similar qualitative set of macro-and trace elements, but differ on quantitative content. In the study, raw materials from minerals potassium and calcium, trace elements of magnesium, manganese, iron, aluminum. Horse chestnut leaves more than in inflorescences sodium, iron, barium, vanadium, manganese, approximately equal to the contents of potassium, phosphorus, strontium. The content of the rest of the items above in inflorescences

Keywords:  Elemental composition, spectral analysis, horse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum L., leaves, flowers

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