• Dr.Renu Saraswat
• Dr.Devesh Saraswat
• Dr.Meenakshi Yadav

Plant extracts in their crude form or partly purified forms have been employed in the medication for the cure of a number of human diseases since ages. Therefore medicinal herbs are considered to be our precious heritage as these are a part of our traditional as well as modern system of treatment. Fagopyrum esceulentum Moench or Buckwheat has a long tradition of being used as food and as medicine because of the abundance of supplements like vitamins, flavonoids, phytosterols ,proteins, polyphenols , minerals and carotenoids, etc. in it . Essential oils which may also be referred as Volatile Oils have a distinctive combination of naturally existing compounds and are highly volatile substances in nature . Essential oils (VOS) are present in the form of small droplets in some specific glands of plants. These VOs or essential oils are extracted from various parts of plant like leaves, roots ,stem ,flowers ,seeds etc. The main object of the present work is to separate and investigate different constituents of essential oil from the leaves of the plant F.esculentum . The work can be in general categorized in two main parts first is the isolation of essential oil(VO) from the leaves of F.esculentum by steam distillation and second is the separation of various components using column chromatographic technique and subsequently identification of various components using GLC .Major constituents identified were α-pinene, β-pinene , Linalyl acetate, d-limonene, p-cymene, Linalool .

F.esculentum, Essential oils, volatile constituents.extraction

"Chromatographic analysis of essential oils from the leaves of Fagopyrum esculentum", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.1100-1105, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2007139.pdf

"Chromatographic analysis of essential oils from the leaves of Fagopyrum esculentum", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp1100-1105, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2007139.pdf