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Research Article

Valuable Assessment of Quality of PatoladiLepa: An Ayurvedic Paste

Kumaradharmasena LSP1*, Fernando PIPK2, Arawwawala LDAM2, Kamal S1 and Peiris KPP3

1Department of Shalya Shalakya, Institute of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo, Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka

2Industrial Technology Institute, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka

3Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Institute, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

*Corresponding Author:
Dr. Kumaradharmasena LSP
Department of Shalya Shalakya, Institute of Indigenous Medicine
University of Colombo, Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka
Tel: +94 11 2 581835
E-mail: menuka@iti.lk

Received date: November 01, 2016; Accepted date: November 22, 2016; Published date: November 28, 2016

Citation: Kumaradharmasena LSP, Fernando PIPK, Arawwawala LDAM, Kamal S, Peiris KPP (2016) Valuable Assessment of Quality of PatoladiLepa: An Ayurvedic Paste. J Tradit Med Clin Natur 5:199.

Copyright: © 2016 Kumaradharmasena LSP, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

More than one fourth of world population is suffering from dental caries. It is a burden to governments of both developed and developing countries as they have to spend lot of money on treatments for dental caries. PatoladiLepa is an Ayurvedic paste used for dental caries and it consists of 7 plant ingredients, rock salt and honey. The objective of the current research was to determine the organoleptic properties, pH value, total ash, water soluble ash, acid insoluble ash and heavy metals such as Arsenic (As) and Lead (Pb) in PatoladiLepa using standard protocols. Moreover, Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) fingerprint was developed for the paste using dichloromethane, cyclohexane and methanol in a ratio of 20:6:0.4 v/v. According to the results, PatoladiLepa appeared to be semi solid, blackish brown with pungent taste. In addition, pH value, total ash, water soluble ash, acid insoluble ash were 5.8 ± 1 at 29°C, 12.1 ± 0.0% w/w, 1.8 ± 0.0% w/w and 0.24 ± 0.0% w/w respectively. As and Pb were not present in PatoladiLepa. In conclusion, quality control parameters were established for PatoladiLepa for the first time.

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