Abstract

A RESEARCH ON PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS IN SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS OF ASTERACEAE FAMILY

Tambe Varsha Nandkumar*, Aher Nitin Balkrishna, Deshmukh Dhananjay Babanrao and Dale Dipali Mohan

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Abstract

The phytochemical analysis of the plants is very important commercially and has great interest in pharmaceutical companies for the production of the new drugs for curing of various diseases. Medicinal plants of Asteraceae family have many bioactive compounds which are used for curing of various human diseases and also play an important role in healing. The present investigation deals with the phytochemical studies of various parts of different medicinal plants like dyssodia greggii and caesulia axillaris of Asteraceae family. The main objective of the research work was to check the presence or absence of the phytochemical constituents in all the selected medicinal plants. Hence methanolic (90%) extracts of flower, root and leaf powders of selceted plants have been screened for qualitative determination of different secondary metabolites like, glycoside. alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins, reducing sugar, saponin and terpenoids etc. The antimicrobial activities of essential oil of caesulia axillaris also observed. It is expected that the important phytochemical properties recognized by our study in the indigenous medicinal plants of Asteraceae will be very useful in the curing of various diseases.

Keywords: Medicinal plants, Methanolic extracts, Phytochemical study, dyssodia greggii, caesulia axillaris.