Qualitative elemental analysis of some selected Indian medicinal plants using micro focus x-ray fluorescence using synchrotron radiation

The trace element deficiencies effects in the reduced activity of the concerned enzymes. However, since each trace element is related to so many enzymes, deficiency of a single trace element is often not related with any specific medical manifestations. The present work is done at Indus 2 Synchrotron radiation source - BL16 beam line at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore. The microprobe XRF beam line (BL-16) has been designed to work in the photon energy range 4-20 keV and has an acceptance of 1 mrad (H) ×0.2 mrad and include a fixed-exit double-crystal Monochromator (DCM) with a pair of symmetric and asymmetric Si (111) crystals (mounted side-by-side) and a Kirkpatrick-Baez (KB) focusing system with a pair of elliptical mirrors. In the present study, significant concentrations of Iron, Zinc, Manganese, Calcium, Copper, and Nickel are found in almost all the plant samples