Study of the East India part of the collection of medicinal raw materials of the department of pharmacognosy of St. Petersburg state chemical-pharmaceutical university

Abstract

A part of the collection of medicinal raw materials of the Department of Pharmacognosy of the St. Petersburg State Chemical and Pharmaceutical University, received from the Agricultural Museum of St. Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century, from 309 samples of raw materials (9.2% of the total number) of plants collected in the East India, was studied. Its structure is studied by morphological groups of raw materials, producing species, genera and families. The group “Fruits” is the most widely represented (63 samples, 20.4%). Then in descending order are “Seeds” (58 samples), “Roots” (22), “Barks” (21), “Leaves” (20), “Flowers” (13), “Herbs” (12), “Rhizomes with root tubers” (4), “Galls” (4), “Sprigs” (3), “Thallus” (3), “Gums” (3), “Resins” (3), “Gum-resins” (2), “Rhizomes» (2); 10 samples represent raw materials of other groups. Plant specimens are produced from 245 species, 181 genera, 78 families. A number of species (11% of the total number) are represented by more than one group of raw materials, of which Spondias pinnata – four (fruits, bark, leaves, resin), Tamarindus indica – three (fruits, seeds, leaves). A number of genera are represented by more than one species. Four species are represented by the genera Curcuma, Ficus and Terminalia, three are the genera Piper, Sida and Vigna, two are Acacia, Asparagus, Barringtonia, Cyperus, Euphorbia, Ipomoea, Onosma, Phyllanthus, Pistacia, Rumex, Smilax, Solanum, Tamarix, Trachyspermum and Wrightia. Most of the samples (40, 12.9% of the total) are from species of the Fabaceae family, followed in descending order by Malvaceae and Poaceae (13 samples each), Moraceae (9), Asteraceae and Rubiaceae (8 each), Anacardiaceae (7), Apiaceae, Apocynaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Lamiaceae (6 each), Combretaceae, Solanaceae, Zingiberaceae (5 each), and others with fewer. The data obtained can be used to identify species that are promising for advanced study in order to create new drugs.