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S C Mandal1, P K Mukherjee, A Nandy
1Department of pharmaceutical technology, faculty of engineering & technology jadavpur University, Calcutta - 700 032.
Ancient Science of Life
|May 5, 2012
Abstract:
The macroscopic character of the roots physical constant values, extractive values, behaviour on treatment with different chemical reagents, fluorescence characters under ultra violet light after treatment with different chemical reagents of the powdered roots of Asparagus racemosus Willd, (Fam. Liliaceae) were studied to fix some pharmacognostical parameters.
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