PHARMACOGNOSY QUALITY RESEARCH OF PEACH LEAVES

Abstract

Extension of research to find sources to produce new effective and safe drugs of plant origin is an urgent task. One of the perspective kinds of medicinal plants are leaves of peach. They are rich in plant substances of phenolic structure, which have antitumor, choleretic, capillary strengthening, antioxidant and immunomodulating action and are a promising raw material for the introduction into scientific medicine.The article presents the results of morphological-anatomical and phytochemical studies of leaves of peach. The study found significant diagnostic anatomical characteristics: paracytic type of stomatal apparatus, simple thick-walled one- and two-celled hairs, located at the edge of the leave and a simple single-celled thin-walled hairs along the veins of the lower side of the leave; druses and prismatic crystals of calcium oxalate.A qualitative chemical and chromatographic analysis of peach leaves has been carried out. The study discovered the presence of flavonoids, tannins, alkaloids and coumarins.