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Chemical constituants of vasuka - Spermacoce hispida, Borreria hi..

vasuka :

Spermacoce hispida

Phytochemistry:

- Methanolic extract yielded flavonoids and amino acids.
- Various extracts of whole plant yielded alkaloids, carbohydrates and glycosides, phytosterols, fixed oil and fats, saponins, phenolic compounds and tannins, protein and amino acid, coumarins, and flavonoids.
- Various extracts of seed oil yielded saponins, tannins, phenolics, steroids, essential oil, flavonoids, and terpenoids, with an absence of alkaloids, glycosides and carbohydrates. Seed oil content was 43.60% in the petroleum ether extract and 19% in the methanol extract.


PHARMACOLOGY:

Important formulations 

1. Murivenna


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