INVITRO ANTI- OXIDANTS ACTIVITY OF FLOWERS OF BARRINGTONIA ACUTANGULA L.
A. Zechariah Jebakumar
Dept. of Research and Scientific studies, Prince Sultan Military college of Health Sciences, Dhahran-31932, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Hassan S. Nondo
Dept. of Research and Scientific studies, Prince Sultan Military college of Health Sciences, Dhahran-31932, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Siju K. George
Dept. of Research and Scientific studies, Prince Sultan Military college of Health Sciences, Dhahran-31932, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
G.Manoj
Dept of Pharmacology, C.L. Baid Metha College of Pharmacy, Thoraipakkam, Chennai - 600096, India
The flowers of the Barringtonia acutangula (L.) is traditional remedies for the many disease condition such as pain, hepatic cirrhosis, inflammation, diarrhea, convulsion, dementia, pyrexia, ulcer, healing of wounds. It is very population perennial herb that is distributed in world wide. In this present study the ethanol extract of flowers Barringtonia acutangula L. were investigated by using DPPH scavenging test and reducing power method. The preliminary phytochemical screening was performed and the total phenolic content had been estimated. The EEBA exhibited a significant dose dependent inhibition of DPPH activity. The IC50 values of the EEBA and reference standard ascorbic acid have significant anti-oxidant activity and the similar activity was shown in the other method also.
4 , 2 , 2014
81 - 84