Abstract

PRELIMINARY PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING AND HPLC FINGER PRINTING OF ROOT-BARK OF ABROMA AUGUSTA LINN

Aparna Dixit* and Anil Kumar Singh

Abstract

Now-a-days, there are a growing interest towards traditional medicinal plants in order discover new drugs. Traditional medicinal plants provide a vast material which are evidence proved in search of novel drugs. Abroma augusta is one of among plants having enormous medicinal properties. In order to establishment of quality standards, authentication and identification of medicinally important plant, there are many techniques evolved. Preliminary chemical analysis is done in order to identify qualitative phyto-chemicals. There are many chromatographic techniques also evolved to obtain fingerprint of plant. In this study, the primary phytochemical analysis and HPLC fingerprinting is done to alcoholic and aqueous extract of root bark of Abroma augusta. The results showed that root-bark of Abroma augusta contains appreciable number of phytochemicals benefits against various disorders confirming the correct use of this plant in the traditional medicinal system.

Keywords: Phytochemical analysis, HPLC, Abroma augusta.