Improvement of equipment for quantifying aromatic oil in medicinal plants.
- Author:
Tam Thi Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
aromatic oil
- MeSH:
Plants, Medicinal;
oils;
Medicine, Traditional
- From:Pharmaceutical Journal
1999;282(10):14-17
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The new apparatus is improved on the base of the apparatus for volatile oils determination of the “Methode I” described in the Vietnamese Pharmacopeia I (1971). It includes in 3 principal parts: a shortneck 0.5-1 liter flask, a cold condenser and a tube adapter, which binds the flask and a condenser. Tube florentin, which is suspensed in the tube adapter, is graduated in 2 parts: the superior part to 0.1ml and the inferior part (smaller) to 0.02ml. The improved apparatus is simple, good closed and permit to determine exactly the volatile oils in the drugs.
