caa a22 4500 46790216X CHVBK 20180406152821.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10661-006-7395-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10661-006-7395-x Estimation of Heavy Metals in Different Berberis Species and Its Market Samples [Elektronische Daten] [Sharad Srivastava, Vartika Rai, Manjoosha Srivastava, A. Rawat, Shanta Mehrotra] Popularity of herbal drugs is increasing all over the world because of lesser side effects as compared to synthetic drugs. Besides, it costs less and easily available to poor people particularly in developing countries. But quality assurance of herbal drugs is very necessary prior to its use. Because in today's polluted environment, even herbal drugs are not safe. Berberis spp. is very important medicinal plant, having various medicinal properties. It is also included in Indian and British pharmacopoeias. Its demand is quite high in herbal drug market. So, to check the quality of market samples of this drug, ten different samples were procured from different drug markets of India for heavy metal estimation. Besides, genuine samples of four species of Berberis viz. B. aristata, B. chitria, B. lycium, B. asiatica were also collected from natural habitats to compare heavy metal concentration in both market and genuine samples. It was found that market samples were much more contaminated than genuine samples. Lead (Pb) concentration is far beyond from WHO permissible limit (10 ppm) for herbal drugs, reaching to maximum 49.75 ppm in Amritsar market sample. Likewise, concentration of all other metals like Cd, Cr and Ni were also very high in market samples as compared to genuine samples. Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2006 Berberis nationallicence Daruharidra nationallicence heavy metals nationallicence market samples nationallicence permissible limit nationallicence Srivastava Sharad Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute, 226001, Lucknow, India aut Rai Vartika Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute, 226001, Lucknow, India aut Srivastava Manjoosha Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute, 226001, Lucknow, India aut Rawat A. Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute, 226001, Lucknow, India aut Mehrotra Shanta Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute, 226001, Lucknow, India aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 116/1-3(2006-05-01), 315-320 0167-6369 116:1-3<315 2006 116 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-006-7395-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-006-7395-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Srivastava Sharad Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute, 226001, Lucknow, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rai Vartika Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute, 226001, Lucknow, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Srivastava Manjoosha Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute, 226001, Lucknow, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rawat A. Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute, 226001, Lucknow, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mehrotra Shanta Pharmacognosy and Ethnopharmacology Division, National Botanical Research Institute, 226001, Lucknow, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 116/1-3(2006-05-01), 315-320 0167-6369 116:1-3<315 2006 116 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer