Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal is one of the indigenous medicinal plant in India as well as worldwide. Since it contains number of health-promoting chemical compounds includes withaferin A and variety of steroids, it is commonly used in the ayurvedic system for the treatment of various disorders. Therefore several mono- and poly-herbal products of W. somnifera are commercially available in the Indian market. Hence there is an emergent necessity to analyze the quality retain of commercial products from its genuine real samples. In this present work the commercial sample W. somnifera available from southern part of India and genuine real samples available in the Western-Ghats South-East region are tested for its chemical constituents qualitatively as well as quantitatively. The analysis FT-IR, UV-Vis and SEM-EDAX has been adopted to study the functional presence and elemental presence of W. somnifera. The results revealed minor variations in the content of both W. somnifera samples.
Keywords: Withania somnifera; Medicinal Plant; FT-IR; UV-Vis; SEM-EDAX;