Considering the quality of phytotherapic agents, it is important to point out that the concern with this subject includes rigorous attendance the different steps of development and production of these products, from the collection of the vegetable to the availability of the final product. The quality control for the plants and their extracts is essential when they are used in the development of phytotherapics. In this work, methodologies (pharmacopoeic and no pharmacopoeic) were employed to establish norms for the quality control of Dimorphandra mollis Benth. (Leguminosae) fruit, popularly known as faveira. Pharmacopoeic and no pharmacopoeic methodologies were employed to physic, physic-chemical, chemical and microbiological quality control. The results obtained established the physic-chemical characters of the drug and showed that the fruits and the ethanol 70% extract present a content of flavonoids of 10.25% and 17.21%, respectively. The preliminary phytochemical analysis of the D. mollis fruits evidenced tannins, saponnins and flavonoids. The microbiological analysis did not present pathogenic growth among the accomplished tests.
Dimorphandra mollis; quality control; phytotherapy; physico-chemical control; microbiologic control
