ABSTRACT
Medicinal plants have been used by humans for centuries in folklore medicine. Medicinal plants are also incorporated into the historical medicine of virtually all human cultures. The present work discusses the elemental determination of elements in two medicinal plants Solanum nigrum linn 380and Spilanthes acmella by using energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF). S. nigrum linn belongs to the Solanaceae family and is used in the treatment of cardiac, skin disease, and inflammation of kidney, etc. S. acmella belongs to the family Compositae and is called the toothache plant and it is also used as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic. Twelve elements were determined in this study.
