Thorn Apple Research Articles

Extraction of scopolamine from seeds and pods of the Indian thorn apple in an electric field

It is well known that the ex t rac t ion of alkaloids is a c c e l e r a t e d in an e l ec t r i c a l f ield and i n c r e a s e s the comple teness of t he i r ex t rac t ion f r o m a plant raw ma te r i a l . Ionophores i s and e l ec t rod ia lys i s have been used to ex t rac t alkaloids; the p r o c e s s is c a r r i e d out in t h r e e c h a m b e r appara tus s epa ra t ed by p a r c h ment of cellophane m e m b r a n e s [1, 2]. These opera t ions , however , a re suitable only fo r the l abora to ry .