IPB Organized Medicinal Plants TLC Fingerprint Analysis Training
Pusat Studi Biofarmaka Tropika (Trop BRC) of Institute of Research and Community Empowerment of IPB organized Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) Fingerprint Analysis Training to identify, discriminate and authenticate medicinal plants. This two days event (8-9/5) was participated by 15 participants from universities, private and government institutions, and held in Taman Kencana Campus Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor.
Laboratory Head of Trop BRC, Rudi Heryanto, S.Si, M.Si stated that this event organized to provide the participants knowledge about development of TLC-based fingerprint analysis method. According to him, “TLC fingerprint analysis method or usually mention as thin layer chromatography is important in preventing mixing or falsification and error identification to ensure the quality, safety and efficacy of medicinal herbs from upstream to downstream,” he explained.
He also added, TLC fingerprint analysis will be an attractive option in developing medicinal plants authentication method. TLC fingerprint analysis is considerably simple and easy enough, but it is able to provide comprehensive profile of a medicinal plant.
TCL analysis approach is an analytical technique that recently widely used as quality control method for herbal medicine. Approaches with chemical fingerprint pattern is more popular because it accentuates on total chemical components and their derivative form of medicinal plants which are a mixture from hundreds of chemical components. It is known that chemical component composition (type and amount) of a medicinal plant is unique.
Rudi further explained that pharmacological effect of a medicinal plant is a synergy from the components contained therein. Chromatography fingerprint is one of methods in profiling the whole components because it is able to picture the complexity of medicinal plant’s chemical components. “This technique helped the participants to identify the genuine and faked herbal medicine,” Rudi conveyed.
This training invited three resource speakers from Trop BRC LPPM IPB, namely Laboratory Head of Trop BRC, Rudi Heryanto, S.Si, M.Si, Technical Secretary of Trop BRC, Dr. Mohamad Rafi, Secretary of Division of Community Empowerment and Development of Biopharmaca Market Trop BRC, Dr. Wulan Tri Wahyuni. (Awl/ris)
