The present study deals with the pharmacognostical studies on Morinda tinctoria.(Roxb). The leaves of M.tinctoria were shade dried and mechanically powdered after keeping them in an oven at 35oC for 24 hours. These powdered materials were used for further physiochemical, phytochemical and fluorescent analysis. The leaves contains total ash value is 31%, acid insoluble ash and acid soluble ash v...

To study the efficacy of ethanolic extract of Holarrhena antidysenterica (EEHA) seeds in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats and to investigate the qualitative phytochemical present in the extract. The study also aims to evaluate acute and short-term general toxicity of the extract in albino rats. EEHA seeds were subjected to preliminary qualitative phytochemical investigations by using ...

The sample for the study constitutes acanthopora spicifera from red seaweed and sargassum wightii from brown seaweed. They were freshly obtained from mandapam and elatharavai coast of erwadi and were rinsed in seawater and the packed in aseptic bags and brought to the laboratory for further processing. The extracts were subjected to phytochemical analysis to secondary metabolites both qualitati...

Scrophularia genus belonging to the family of Scrophulariaceae, is a medicinal plant widely distributed in Iran. In the present study,the anti-malarial activity of different extracts of three Iranian endemic species of Scrophularia including S. frigida, S. subaphylla and S. atropatana, was screened by an in-vitro preliminary assay. The plant materials were extracted successively with n-hexane, ...

Objective: Use of plant based drugs and chemicals for curing various ailments and personal adornment is as old as human civilization. Plants and plant-based medicaments are the basis of many of the modern pharmaceuticals we use today for our various ailments. The present paper deals with the phytochemical screening of medicinally important compounds from Nigella sativa, an important medicinal p...

Leaves of Ficus tsiela were extracted with different solvents and evaluated the phytochemical analysis and antimicrobial activity. The presence of biological constituents namely terpenoids, tannins, steroids, anthraquinones, flavonoids, saponins, cardiac glycosides and phlobatannin were confirmed through preliminary phytochemical analysis. Alkaloid was absent in all the extracts treated with di...

the aim of the present research was focused on the antibacterial, preliminary phytochemical and pharmacognostical properties of vicoa indica (l.)dc. via in vitro approach. the aqueous and organic solvent (hexane, chloroform and methanol) extracts from the leaves of vicoa indica (asteraceae) were tested against escherichia coli, klebsiella pneumoniae, salmonella typhi, vibrio parahaemolyticus, v...