Botanical Information Crocus sativus L. (under development)
| Synonyms | Crocus officinalis (L.) Honck. |
| Crocus orsinii Parl. | |
| Crocus pendulus Stokes | |
| Crocus sativus subsp. orsinii (Parl.) K.Richt. | |
| Crocus sativus var. cashmerianus Royle | |
| Crocus sativus var. officinalis L. | |
| Crocus sativus var. orsinii (Parl.) Maw | |
| Crocus setifolius Stokes | |
| Geanthus autumnalis Raf. | |
| Safran officinarum Medik. | |
| Common name (en) | Saffron |
| Common name (ar) | زعفران مزروع |
| Common name (de) | Safran |
| Common name (es) | Azafrán |
| Common name (fr) | Safran |
| Common name (it) | Zafferano vero |
| Common name (nl) | Saffraankrokus |
| Common name (ru) | Шафран посевной |
| Common name (th) | สีเหลือง |
| Common name (vi) | Nghệ tây |
| Common name (zh) | 藏紅花 |
| Sample preparation | Carefully crush 0.1 g of the herbal drug with a glass rod and moisten with 0.2 mL of water. After 3 min add 5 mL of methanol, allow to stand for 20 min, protected from light, and filter through a plug of glass wool. |
| Mobile phase | Water, 2-propanol, ethyl acetate 10:25:65 (v/v/v) |
| Derivatization | Treat with anisaldehyde solution (0.5 mL of anisaldehyde, 10 mL of glacial acetic acid, 85 mL of methanol and 5 mL of sulfuric acid.) and examine in daylight while heating at 100-105 °C for 5-10 min |
| Sample preparation | Weigh 0.1 g of the powdered sample and place it in a 25-mL conical flask wrapped in aluminium foil, then add 10 mL of methanol. Sonicate (100 W) the mixture for 10 min. Filter the mixture |
| Mobile phase | Ethyl acetate, isopropanol, water, formic acid 65:35:20:1 (v/v/v/v) |
| Derivatization | No derivatization |
| Sample preparation | To 20 mg of the powder add 1 mL of methanol, sonicate for 10 minutes, allow to stand until clear and use the supernatant as the test solution |
| Mobile phase | Ethyl acetate, methanol, water 100:16.5:13.5 (v/v/v/v) |
| Derivatization | No derivatization |
| Sample preparation | Macerate 1 g of the powdered drug with 10 mL of n-hexane overnight. Filter and remove the solvent under reduced pressure. Dissolve the residue in 10 mL of n-hexane |
| Mobile phase | Toluene, ethyl acetate 93:7 (v/v) |
| Derivatization | Spray with anisaldehyde sulfuric acid reagent and heat at 105°C for 5-10 min |
| Sample preparation | Add 1.0 g of powdered sample to 10 mL of ethanol, sonicate for 30 minutes, filter and make up the filtrate to 10 mL |
| Mobile phase | n-butanol, acetic acid, water 7:1:2 (v/v/v) |
| Derivatization | No derivatization |