SEPARATION AND ESTIMATION OF COMPONENTS PRESENT IN EMBLICA OFFICINALIS: A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION ON ALLERGIC REACTIONS
AbstractIndian Gooseberry, Emblica officinalis is a, fruit widely accepted in Kerala for its medicinal & nutritive values. The fruit has dark green colored spherical seed surrounded by pale green colored tissue. Different varieties of food products, pickles being the major one, are used all over the world .The present work on gooseberry originated from a real medical case history. The medical reports say that a normal person who was eating gooseberry on a normal course all at a sudden became allergic only to this fruit since two years. This person was hospitalized two times for anti- dot injection as the allergic symptoms go beyond control. The major symptoms the patient showed are; (a) itching; (b) swelling of the whole bodily parts & (c) drowsiness. These allergic effects were due to gooseberry and which confirmed by medical examination. Based on our preliminary information, allergy due to Indian gooseberry was the first case reported in our locality. This made our interest to investigate further the chemistry & physiology of allergic reactions of gooseberry in this patient
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IJPSR
Kuzhipalli Parayakode Greeshma* and Mudhirakandi Arumugham Manikandan
Sona College of Technology, Salem - 636 005, Tamil Nadu, India
18 March, 2012
24 June, 2012
28 June, 2012
http://dx.doi.org/10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.3(7).2257-62
01 July 2012
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