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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2160</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>PRE-FORMULATION ASSESSMENT: FRUIT OF CUMINUMCYMINUM, LINN.&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>hanthi.A</surname><given-names>S</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Radha</surname><given-names>R.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume/><issue/><fpage>49</fpage><lpage>57</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Cuminumcyminum, (Linn.)Correa; belonging to the familyUmbelliferaeis commonly known as Cumin (Eng.) and Jira (Hindi). It is a glabrous, annual herb. Cultivated as a cold season crop on the plains and as summer crop on the hills in Northern India, a native of west Asia. It has the traditional value for curing various ailments like Asthma, fever, skin diseases, leprosy and also as a helminthiasis. This traditionally useful part (fruit) was standardized based on the pharmacognostic, physico-chemical and chromatographic conditions. Quality assessment by determining the limits of Microbials, heavy metals, pesticides and Aflatoxin as per WHO guidelines. The report states that the sample taken was standard under AyurvedicPharmacopoeial limits and WHO. The preliminary phytochemical screening confirms the presence of Essential oils, Glycosides, sterols and proteins. HPTLC finger print states the presence ofN nine different constituents and determination of total volatile oil content by Gas chromatography was found to be about 0.887%w/w. From this the report confirms that the sample was standard enough to use in the developing a herbal formulation.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Cuminumcyminum</kwd><kwd> standardization</kwd><kwd> phytochemical screening</kwd><kwd> chromatographic identification and total volatile oil estimation by GC</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
