Abstract

EVALUATION OF POTENT PHYTOCHEMICALS AND ANTIDIABETIC ACTIVITY OF FICUS RACEMOSA LINN

Jayashree Sethuraman, Harini Nehru, Kumaran Shanmugam and Purushothaman Balakrishnan*

Abstract

Ficus racemosa is an annual perennial tree which belongs to the family Moraceae widely spread all over the. It is used in Indian traditional medicine to treat various diseases. In order to evaluate its antidiabetic activity, methanolic extract of Ficus racemosa leaves were performed with addition to phytochemical analysis, antioxidant. Phytochemical screening confirms the presence of terpenoids, flavonoids, tannins, steroids, glycosides and coumarins in it. These phytochemicals were placed in Thin layer chromatography (TLC) to get the Rf values of each extract. Scavenging free radicals (DPPH, reducing power) total antioxidant, glucose diffusion, glucose uptake, α-amylase assays has been performed. In the present study, antidiabetic activity of Ficus racemosa was studied.

Keywords: Ficus racemosa, antioxidant, glucose diffusion, glucose uptake and ?- Amylase.