Lab Practical Organoleptic
Lab Practical Organoleptic
ORGANOLEPTIC
AND
MACROSCOPIC
EXAMINATION
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Comparative Organoleptic and Macroscopic Examination
Organoleptic Examination (Taste, Color, Smell, Sound, Touch)
Macroscopic examination (Size, shape, fracture, external markings like lenticels, ridges,
nodes, furrows, cracks etc.)
(Any one comparison of drug based on availability in each plant part)
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Index
(Comparative Organoleptic and Macroscopic Examination)
1. Citraka Root
2. Shunthi Rhizome
3. Guduchi Stem
4. Ashoka Bark
6. Vasa Leaf
7. lavanga Flower
8. Marich Fruit
9. Kampillaka Phalaraja
Method/Procedure:
▪ The plant material was procured from herbal garden
▪ Organoleptic evaluation can be done by means of organs of sense.
▪ The organoleptic investigations (color, shape and size, odour and taste, surface
characteristics and texture) were performed.
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Observations and results:
Comparative organoleptic examination
Sr.no. Organoleptic Drug Substitute/Adulterant
examination
1. Taste Tikta Kashaya Katu
2. Color Dark brown Dark Brownish black
3. Smell Disagreeable characteristic odour
4. Sound Cracking Kat sound
5. Touch warty Smooth to touch
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Schematic Diagram:
Drug Substitute/Adulterant
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Date: / /
Method/Procedure:
▪ The plant material was procured from herbal garden
▪ Organoleptic evaluation can be done by means of organs of sense.
▪ The organoleptic investigations (color, shape and size, odour and taste, surface
characteristics and texture) were performed.
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Observations and results:
Comparative organoleptic examination
Sr.no. Organoleptic Drug Substitute/Adulterant
examination
1. Taste Katu Katu
2. Color Light brown Brown black
3. Smell Aromatic Aromatic
4. Sound - -
5. Touch Rough Rough , wrinkled
7. Furrows - -
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Schematic Diagram:
Drug Substitute/Adulterant
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Date: / /
Method/Procedure:
▪ The plant material was procured from herbal garden
▪ Organoleptic evaluation can be done by means of organs of sense.
▪ The organoleptic investigations (color, shape and size, odour and taste, surface
characteristics and texture) were performed.
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Observations and results:
Comparative organoleptic examination
Sr.no. Organoleptic Drug Substitute/Adulterant
examination
1. Taste Tikta Tikta, Katu
2. Color light brown Greenish grey
3. Smell Characteristic Characteristic, pleasant
4. Sound - -
5. Touch Rough, warty Rough, warty
3. Fracture - -
8. Cracks rough surface and a radial rough surface and longitudinal cracks,
structure with conspicuous cut surface assumes a yellow tint when
wheel like structure with exposed to air and cut surface shows a
medullary rays traversing wheel like structure.
porous tissues
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Schematic Diagram:
Drug Substitute/Adulterant
Tinospora cordifolia
Tinospora crispa
Method/Procedure:
▪ The plant material was procured from herbal garden
▪ Organoleptic evaluation can be done by means of organs of sense.
▪ The organoleptic investigations (color, shape and size, odour and taste, surface
characteristics and texture) were performed.
2. Shape - -
6. Nodes - -
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Schematic Diagram:
Drug Substitute/Adulterant
Saraca asoca
Polyalthia longifolia
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Date: / /
Method/Procedure:
▪ The plant material was procured from herbal garden
▪ Organoleptic evaluation can be done by means of organs of sense.
▪ The organoleptic investigations (color, shape and size, odour and taste, surface
characteristics and texture) were performed.
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Observations and results:
Comparative organoleptic examination
Sr.no. Organoleptic Drug Substitute/Adulterant
examination
1. Taste Madhur, Tikta -
2. Color Pale yellow, Yellowish-brown -
3. Smell Aromatic -
4. Sound cracking -
5. Touch Smooth, hard -
2. Shape dense
6. Nodes -
7. Furrows Smooth
8. Cracks -
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Schematic Diagram:
Drug Substitute/Adulterant
Santalum album
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Date: / /
Method/Procedure:
▪ The plant material was procured from herbal garden
▪ Organoleptic evaluation can be done by means of organs of sense.
▪ The organoleptic investigations (color, shape and size, odour and taste, surface
characteristics and texture) were performed.
6. Nodes - -
7. Furrows - -
8. Cracks - -
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Schematic Diagram:
Drug Substitute/Adulterant
Adhatoda vasica
Adhatoda beddomei
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Date: / /
Method/Procedure:
▪ The plant material was procured from herbal garden
▪ Organoleptic evaluation can be done by means of organs of sense.
▪ The organoleptic investigations (color, shape and size, odour and taste, surface
characteristics and texture) were performed.
6. Nodes - -
7. Furrows - -
8. Cracks - -
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Schematic Diagram:
Drug Substitute/Adulterant
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Date: / /
Method/Procedure:
▪ The plant material was procured from herbal garden
▪ Organoleptic evaluation can be done by means of organs of sense.
▪ The organoleptic investigations (color, shape and size, odour and taste, surface
characteristics and texture) were performed.
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Observations and results:
Comparative organoleptic examination
Sr.no. Organoleptic Drug Substitute/Adulterant
examination
1. Taste Katu, Tikta Tikta
2. Color greyish-black to black greyish-black
3. Smell aromatic -
4. Sound - -
5. Touch Hard, wrinkled Rough
6. Nodes - -
8. Cracks - -
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Schematic Diagram:
Drug Substitute/Adulterant
Piper nigrum
Carica papaya
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Date: / /
Method/Procedure:
▪ The plant material was procured from herbal garden
▪ Organoleptic evaluation can be done by means of organs of sense.
▪ The organoleptic investigations (color, shape and size, odour and taste, surface
characteristics and texture) were performed.
3. Fracture - -
4. External - -
Markings
Like
Lenticels
5. Ridges - -
6. Nodes - -
7. Furrows - -
8. Cracks - -
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Schematic Diagram:
Drug Substitute/Adulterant
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Date: / /
Method/Procedure:
▪ The plant material was procured from herbal garden
▪ Organoleptic evaluation can be done by means of organs of sense.
▪ The organoleptic investigations (color, shape and size, odour and taste, surface
characteristics and texture) were performed.
6. Nodes - -
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Schematic Diagram:
Drug Substitute/Adulterant
Mucuna prurita
Mucuna cochinchinensis
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Date: / /
Method/Procedure:
▪ The plant material was procured from herbal garden
▪ Organoleptic evaluation can be done by means of organs of sense.
▪ The organoleptic investigations (color, shape and size, odour and taste, surface
characteristics and texture) were performed.
2. Shape - -
3. Fracture - -
4. External - -
Markings
Like
Lenticels
5. Ridges - -
6. Nodes - -
7. Furrows - -
8. Cracks - -
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Schematic Diagram:
Drug Substitute/Adulterant
Boswellia serrata
Commiphora mukul
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Date: / /
Method/Procedure:
▪ The plant material was procured from herbal garden
▪ Organoleptic evaluation can be done by means of organs of sense.
▪ The organoleptic investigations (color, shape and size, odour and taste, surface
characteristics and texture) were performed.
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Observations and results:
Comparative organoleptic examination
Sr.no. Organoleptic Drug Substitute/Adulterant
examination
1. Taste Madhura, Katu, Tikta Substitute- Bacopa monnieri
Adulterant – Soil, mud, Other species
of Centella
2. Color Greeniish, brownish-grey Greenish
3. Smell not distinct not distinct
4. Sound - -
5. Touch Smooth Smooth, puffy
6. Nodes Slender stem arises from root nodes and internodes prominent
node
7. Furrows - -
8. Cracks - -
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Schematic Diagram:
Drug Substitute/Adulterant
Centella asiatica
Bacopa monnieri
Method/Procedure:
▪ The plant material was procured from herbal garden
▪ Organoleptic evaluation can be done by means of organs of sense.
▪ The organoleptic investigations (color, shape and size, odour and taste, surface
characteristics and texture) were performed.
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Observations and results:
Comparative organoleptic examination
Sr.no. Organoleptic Drug Substitute/Adulterant
examination
1. Taste Tikta, Kashaya Tikta, Kashaya
2. Color greyish-brown and internally yellowish brown, plae yellow
reddish-brown
3. Smell strongly astringen Not distinct
4. Sound Breaking sound like Kat- Kat Breaking sound like Kat- Kat
5. Touch Warty, hard Hard
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Schematic Diagram:
Drug Substitute/Adulterant
Populus alba
Pistacia integerrima
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