Abstract

PHYTOCHEMICAL PROFILE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS OCCURRING IN LOCAL AREA OF TIRUCHIRAPPALLI DISTRICT

D. Muthuselvam*

Abstract

The present study involves twelve different medicinal plants Abutilon hirtum, Acacia nilotica, Achyranthus aspera, Bauhinia variegata, Carica papaya, Elipta alba, Jasminum grandiflorum, Leucas aspera, Ocimum sanctum, Sesbania sesban, Vitex negundo and Wedelia chinensis locally available in Tiuchirappalli region of Tamil Nadu. The leaves of the selected medicinal plants were washed, air dried and then powdered. The aqueous, ethanol and acetone extracts of leaf samples were used for the phytochemical analysis to find out the phytochemical constituents in the plants. The main objective of the research work was to check the presence or absence of the phytoconstituents in all the selected medicinal plants. The results of the phytochemical analysis of these medicinal plants showed that the terpenoids, reducing sugar, Phenols, tannin, glycosides, steroids, flavonoids and alkaloids were found to be present in above mentioned medicinal plants.

Keywords: Medicinal plants, phytochemical analysis and phytoconstituents.