Phytochemical Survey of Herb Drugs (III)

한약의 식물화학적 조사 (III)

One of projects of this institute is phytochemical survey of the herb drugs in Korea for further study. A hundred and fifteen species of plants which are used currently as herb drugs in Korea were screened on the presence of alkaloids, phenolic compounds, flavonoids, chalcones, lactones, glucosides, carbohydrates, terpenoids, steroids, proteins, polypeptides, saponins, and organic acids, and the most reliable presence of alkaloids was detected by paper chromatography. In this paper, presence of alkaloids is also tabulated after screening other 50 species.