Natural radioactivity concentration in traditional Thai herbal medicine

© 2019 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. The aim of this study is to create a database of radioactivity concentration and annual effective dose of the naturally occurring radionuclides: 226Ra, 228Ra, 40K and 210Po in Thai medicinal herb plants. 99 types of popular Thai medicinal herb pl...

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Main Authors: C. Kranrod, S. Chanyotha, R. Kritsananuwat, T. Ploykrathok, P. Pengvanich, Y. Tumnoi, T. Thumvijit, S. Sriburee
格式: Conference Proceeding
出版: 2020
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總結:© 2019 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. The aim of this study is to create a database of radioactivity concentration and annual effective dose of the naturally occurring radionuclides: 226Ra, 228Ra, 40K and 210Po in Thai medicinal herb plants. 99 types of popular Thai medicinal herb plants (total of 214 samples) such as Curcuma comosa Roxb., mucuna, white kwao krua, barbed grass, black galingale, lingzhi mushroom, Ginkgo biloba, jiaogulan, plu kaow, turmeric, ginger, safflower, moringa, gotu kola and garlic were randomly collected from drug stores and herbal fair. The activity concentration of 226Ra, 228Ra and 40K in all herb samples was determined by gamma-ray spectrometry while that of 210Po was determined by alpha spectrometry. The activity concentration was found to range from <0.20 to 89.92 Bq kg-1 for 226Ra, from <0.10 to 39.62 Bq kg-1 for 228Ra and from 4.83 to 2761.33 Bq kg-1 for 40K and from 0.32 to 47.13 Bq kg-1 for 210Po. The highest activities concentration of 226Ra, 228Ra, 40K and 210Po were found in the white kwao krua, jiaogulan, plu kaow and ginkgo, respectively. The average total annual effective dose due to ingestion of these herbal plants was assessed to range from 0.0001 to 0.0327 mSv y-1, with highest dose found in jiaogulan.