Review on Plants Fingerprinting and Tlc Fingerprinting of Two Aqueous Herbal Products
Abstract
Fwenshinen Dakup, Nelson Agaba Ochekpe, Ezekiel Olabisi Afolabi and Francis Maji Agwom
As herbal medicines have become commercialized, the safety, quality and efficacy of medicinal plants and herbal products have become of great concern. In view of this a review on Plant fingerprinting was carried out using systematic review and TLC fingerprinting was also carried out on two herbal products using simple Thin Layer Chromatography. The results revealed Morphological, Chemical and genetic methods are the major types studied. The High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) is the most common type to chemical method utilized and most of the studies on Plants fingerprinting were carried out in Asia. Comparing the TLC profile of the two herbal preparations reveals that the two products are basically the same.