DOI: 10.36347/sajp.2022.v11i01.005

Pages: 27-36

Andrographis paniculata is an important medicinal plant belonging to family Acanthaceae and has been used from ancient times. Andrographis paniculata is used as a traditional herbal medicine in Unani, Ayurvedic, Homeopathic, and Siddha system. It has potential to treat multiple health diseases like abortifacient, antithrombotic, expectorant, hepatoprotective and other uses also. The major marker chemical constituent found is andrographolide (2.39%) which had many therapeutic uses. Dominancy of the herbal drug depend’s on the quantity and quality of therapeutic chemical constituents present in it, which are investigated by using advanced and complex techniques. HPTLC is the advanced and sophisticated technique that can be used for the high-resolution chromatography and identify quality and quantity of therapeutic chemical constituents present in herbal drugs. HPTLC can determine the purity, quality, quantity and authenticity of the herbal crude drugs and marketed formulations very quickly. This article summarised all the relevant information regarding Andrographis paniculata and its marketed formulations was collected from various research articles, review articles and availability of Andrographis paniculata formulations in the market. Availability of various Andrographis paniculata formulations from the market were identified and reported. Literature review on quantification and qualification of marker compound Andrographolide from the Andrographis paniculata by HPTLC method with various samples of formulations and whole plant from different locations of India was also done.