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Article Abstract

International Journal of Advance Research in Multidisciplinary, 2024;2(3):566-570

Phytochemical and pharmacological analysis of commonly used ethnomedicinal plants

Author : Jyoti Sen and Dr. Hira Lal Sangam

Abstract

Over the years, many different communities have found and made use of the medicinal substances found in plants as a means of alleviating a wide range of health problems. Some of the best places to find novel drugs or compounds to employ in existing ones are in the plant materials that have long been used as traditional remedies for diabetes. Traditional healers in many countries, particularly those in the developing world, prescribe plant extracts or other folk plant treatments for diabetes, and the patients often take them as directed. After the obtained plant materials were verified and identified, they were subjected to a series of extractions to extract the desired compounds. In order to determine if chemical components were present, the produced extracts underwent phytochemical screening using a battery of qualitative assays. We used the Salkowski and Liebermann assays for sterols, the b-naphthol assay for glycosides, and Dragendorff's s test for alkaloids. Carotenoids were determined by the Carr-price reaction, triterpenoids by the Liberman-Burchard test, flavonoids by the Shinoda test, naphthoquinones by the Juglone test, and naphthalenoids by this same method. The Matchstick Test was then used to determine the tannin content. The current research shows that Moringa oleifera stem bark and Caesalpinia pulcherrima pod extracts contain a wide variety of phytoconstituents, including glycosides, phenolic compounds, sterols, triterpenoids, and flavonoids. Since these chemicals have pharmacological effects.

Keywords

Biological activity, medicinal plants, phytochemistry, secondary metabolites