Quantitative analysis of quercetin in various extracts of Curcuma amada by high performance liquid chromatography

Herbal medicine and their preparations have been widely used from the thousands of years in developing and developed countries in the primary health care of society and community. Quality control is one of the very important and essential steps in the manufacturing of herbal preparations as quality of product affects the safety and efficacy of medicines. Quality control is mainly applied for both raw materials along with excipients used and finished product. Flavonoids are the class of polyphenolic compounds, which are mainly distributed throughout the plant kingdom. Quercetin is a flavonoid which shows major pharmacological activities like anticancer, hepatoprotective activity, anti-spasmodic, and anti-inflammatory activity. In present investigation qualitatively and quantitatively estimation of the extracts of Curcuma amada has been carried out.