Abstract

QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION AND VALIDATION OF HEAVY METALS ARSENIC, LEAD AND CHROMIUM FROM CARDIOL VATI BY ICP-MS

Raju P. Suryawanshi* and Sudhir S. Kamat

ABSTRACT

Cardiol vati is one of the most popular herbal medicines in Indian market for Cardiac patients. The rapid development of metropolitan cities in developing as well as in developed countries it causes adverse life style effects like unhealthy food, pollutions and a sedentary job, and transportation mode are likely to be risk factors for cardiac diseases. Due to the minimum side effects and easily available in market people are preferred herbal medicines than allopathy medicines. Herbal medicines required standardization with implementation and constant review of technical standards of herbal product and effective quality control methods. Therefore it is thought necessary about the efficacy and standardization of Cardiol vati. Hence in present study Cardiol vati was scanned for the analysis of Heavy metals like Arsenic (As), Lead (Pb), Chromium (Cr) etc. These metals can bind several physiological and health effects. These metals can determine by quantitatively and validated by using modern technique such as ICP-MS.

Keywords: Cardiol vati, Standardization, Herbal medicine, validation, Icp-ms.