TLC profiling of Malaysian herbs / Muhd Izzat Ishak

Malaysian traditional herbs have been used for years by Malay old folk to treat various diseases. There are interests from certain party to develop drug based Malaysian herbs. however there is lacks of techniques to validate this plants. The purpose of this study is to develop chromatogram using thin layer chromatography to produce Malaysian herbs own chromatographic profile. The chromatogram then can be used to do quality control to validate product that claims to contain extracts of Malaysian herbs. The sample and extraction of plants has been done by the PHM555 students from year 2007. From the extracts thin layer chromatography is carried out to produce the best chromatogram by determining the best solvent system to successfully separate chemical components of Malaysian herbs on the TLC plate.