PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENINING OF ETHNO MEDICINAL CELASTRUS EMARGINATA LEAVES
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 leaves of Celastrus emarginata were successive extracted with versatile solvents to get crude extracts, and were subjected to phytochemical analysis. The preliminary phytochemical screening revealed the presence of alkaloids and carbohydrates in the petroleum ether extract. Methanolic extract contains tannins, alkaloids, carbohydrates, glycosides and flavonoids. Aqueous extract contains tannins, steroids, saponins and carbohydrates which could make the plant useful for treating different ailments as having a potential of providing useful drugs for human use. With this view may helpful to search any new compounds from this part of the plant could be isolated hereafter, and the presence of phytochemical constituents from C. emarginata leaves may helpful to future investigations of this plant.
4 , 4 , 2014
163 - 165