Packaging and storage
Preserve in well-closed containers, and store at controlled room temperature.
Labeling
The label states the Latin binomial and, following the official name, the part of the plant from which the article was derived.
Botanic characteristics
Powdered Chaste Tree is dark brown, with a musty, slightly aromatic odor, and a taste resembling that of sage. The following characteristics are present: fragments of the calyx with covering and glandular trichomes on the outer side and rectangular, elongated cells with slightly wavy walls on the inner side; fragments of exocarp with trichomes and cells with large pits in the outer wall; thin-walled parenchymatous cells and globules of fixed oil; stone-pitted cells from the mesocarp; ovoid, lignified cells with bands of reticulate thickening from the testa; and endosperm and cotyledons with fixed oil.
Other requirements
It meets the requirements of the tests for
Identification, Microbial enumeration, Loss on drying, Total ash, Acid-insoluble ash, Pesticide residues, Heavy metals, Content of casticin, and
Content of agnuside under
Chaste Tree.
Auxiliary Information
Staff Liaison :
Maged H. Sharaf, Ph.D., Senior Scientist
Expert Committee : (DSB05) Dietary Supplements - Botanicals
USP29NF24 Page 2303
Pharmacopeial Forum : Volume No. 29(4) Page 1268
Phone Number : 1-301-816-8318