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.
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