“…During the extraction of alkaloids from Atropa belladonna, Wray and Small (10) observed that the insonation of a maceration mixture of solvents and ground drug for 20 minutes produced the same yield of alkaloids as a conventional maceration of 8 hours when both were followed by Soxhlet extraction. Bose, Sen, and Ray (11) have reported that the maceration time for the complete extraction of alkaloids from roots of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences applied during the maceration of the drug was studied employing the three generators previously listed.…”