This study is aimed to examine citric acids as a potential chelating agent decrease colloidal impurities in patchouli oil improve its quality. It covers colour, specific density, refractive index, acid value, iron content, oleoresin and alcohol. Complete Randomized Design with factorial design used two factors repeated 3 times. Factors are (1) concentration consists of 0.25%, 0.5%, 1.0% 1.50% (...

Abstrak : Minyak nilam (patchouli oil) adalah salah satu minyak atsiri yang dihasilkan oleh tanaman (Pogostemon cablin B). Salah indikator sangat menentukan mutu, kualitas dan harga yaitu kadar patchouli alcohol. Semakin tinggi alcohol dalam nilam, maka mutu akan semakin baik. Pembuatan bahan standar terkandung dapat dilakukan dengan cara mengisolasi metode digunakan distilasi fraksinasi. Prose...

Patchouli alcohol (PA), a tricyclic sesquiterpene, is one of the critical bioactive ingredients and is mainly isolated from aerial part of Pogostemon cablin (known as guanghuoxiang in China) belonging to Labiatae. So far, PA has been widely applied in perfume industries. This review was written with the use of reliable information published between 1974 and 2016 from libraries and electronic re...

The present study investigates the possibility of using poloxamers as solubility and dissolution rate enhancing agents of poorly water soluble bioactive constituent patchouli alcohol (PA) that can be used for the preparation of immediate release pellets formulation. Two commercially available grades poloxamer 188 (P 188) and poloxamer 407 (P 407) were selected, and solid dispersions (SDs) conta...

Patchouli is the largest non-oil export commodity among essential oil exports in Indonesia. However, quality of patchouli Indonesia considered to be very low. Traditional distillation carried out a small capacity and uses simple method based on large difference boiling points or one volatile components. This process produces poor such as acid number more than 8, dark oil, alcohol less 30%, high...

Abstrak. Minyak nilam merupakan salah satu jenis dari minyak atsiri yang dapat digunakan sebagai bahan baku dalam industri parfum, kosmetik serta untuk pengobatan. mengandung patchouli alkohol yaitu penyusun utama indikator mengetahui kualitas nilam. Tujuan penelitian ini mengkaji kemampuan teknologi near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) dengan metode partial least square (PLS) mempredi...

A renewed interest in using nature-originated medicines can be seen throughout the world due to their benefits when compared synthetic or semi-synthetic drugs aspect of increasing quality life human beings. Pogostemon heyneanus Benth is a prominent and well-known medicinal plant Asian countries that recommended with high value traditional practices, Ayurvedic treatments folkloric use. It also k...

The present study investigates the possibility of using poloxamers as solubility and dissolution rate enhancing agents of poorly water soluble bioactive constituent patchouli alcohol (PA) that can be used for the preparation of immediate release pellets formulation. Two commercially available grades poloxamer 188 (P 188) and poloxamer 407 (P 407) were selected, and solid dispersions (SDs) conta...