pharmacognostic study of nerium odorum soland used as miswak

ABSTRACT

Anatomy, macro- and microscopic study powdered drug and chemical tests of powdered drug of Nerium odorum Soland used as a Miswak were carried out. The N. odorum wood shows small size vessels to moderate size, parenchyma, fibers and pith with intercellular spaces and ray cells abundantly found. Powdered miswak is soluble in sulphuric acid while insoluble in other chemicals and its powder did not retain its actual colour when mixed in various chemicals. Powdered drug shows fragments of fibers, parenchyma and uniseriate ray cells