Abstract

PHYTOCHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL PROPERTIES /ACTIVITIES OF POLYGALA ELONGATE

Shashank Patel, Aditi Srivastava, ^*Shish Kumar, Anurag Goel

Abstract

Polygala elongata is a small herb which are belonging to the family Polygalaceae. The other name of polygala are periyanka, milkwort, snackroot. Its found in peninsular India, in Bihar, Tamilnadu, and along the coastal area of Konkan. ages. Medicinal herbs have been used in one form or another, under indigenous systems of medicine like Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani. The plant may possess phytoconstituents such as alkaloids, saponine, flavonoids, coumarine, and styrylpyrones which are responsible for the prevent and cure of diseases like antifungal hepatoprotective antidiabetics antioxidant antiasthamatic antimicrobial and snack poisoning etc. Polygalaceae are known to contain a variety of different polyphenolic compounds such as xanthones, flavonoids, and biphenyl derivatives. The ethanolic extract of the plant’s polygala elongata was investigated for its hepatoprotective activity. Polygala elongata and Polygala glabra in different solvent extracts are used in this study shows a good control to the growth of fungi Myrothecium sp., and all the five medicinal plants extracts were screened for their phytochemical content. Polygalaceae are known to contain a variety of different polyphenolic compounds such as xanthones, flavonoids, and biphenyl derivatives.

Keywords: Polygalaceae, polygala species, Antiasthmatic, antidiabetics.