Abstract:
Species (medicinal species) is a pharmaceutical form made up of mixtures of
different plant organs (plant products), dried, which is used in therapy in the form of
infusions, decoctions, macerates, syrups, tinctures, glycerine extracts, oil extracts, wine
etc. In temperate continental area in which our country stands, saprophyte fungi live
on the medicinal herbs so the medicinal species are often seen as different mycotoxins,
metabolites of fungi. The highest incidence in this type of phyto is represented by
mycotoxinsdifuranice (aflatoxins and sterigmatocistins), ochratoxin and patulin. The
objective of this work consists in the qualitative and quantitative determination of
mycotoxins in samples of medicinal species from pharmacies, freelance producers
deprived of knowledge of toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics active principles of plants
and herbal shops. The experiment was performed on 36 samples of vegetable and
medicinal species, samples that were tested by first screening test in LUV and samples
which showed fluorescence were studied further by high pressure chromatography.
Most plant products from manufacturers freelancers do not correspond with the
organoleptic rules and shows mycotoxins load.
