International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences
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10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12
Volume 7 Issue 2
2016 (April - June)
PRELIMINARY PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING OF CAMELLIA SINENSIS & TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA USED IN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
Preliminary screening of phytochemicals is a valuable step, in the detection of the bioactive principles present in medicinal plants and subsequently may lead to drug discovery and development. In the present study, chief phytoconstituents of the two selected medicinal were identified in order to relate their presence with bioactivities of the plants. Screening of two selected medicinal plants ( lessThan i greaterThan Camellia sinensis lessThan /i greaterThan & lessThan i greaterThan Tinospora cordifolia lessThan /i greaterThan ) was performed for the presence of tannins, flavonoids, terpenoids, steroids, glycosides, alkaloids and phenolic compounds using standard methods. The selected medicinal plants were found to contain tannins, flavonoids, phenolic compounds, terpenoids, glycosides, alkaloids in different extracts of methanol, diethyl ether, isoamyl alcohol, water, butan1-ol, ethyl acetate in lessThan i greaterThan Camellia sinensis lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan Tinospora cordifolia lessThan /i greaterThan . Moreover, flavonoids were also present in water and methanol extracts of lessThan i greaterThan Tinospora cordifolia lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan Camellia sinensis lessThan /i greaterThan . On the other hand, alkaloids and steroids were present in the water, isoamyl alcohol, methanol extracts of lessThan i greaterThan Camellia sinensis lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan Tinospora cordifolia lessThan /i greaterThan . In addition, tannins, glycosides and phenols were present in diethyl ether, butan1-ol, water extracts of lessThan i greaterThan Camellia sinensis lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan Tinospora cordifolia lessThan /i greaterThan . It is evident from the study that lessThan i greaterThan Camellia sinensis lessThan /i greaterThan & lessThan i greaterThan Tinospora cordifolia lessThan /i greaterThan have the highest therapeutic efficacy possessing majority of phytochemical classes of compounds.
ANUBRATA PAUL, ARPANA VIBHUTI AND SAMUEL RAJ
Camellia sinensis, Tinospora cordifolia, Screening, Phytochemicals.
187-193