Abstract

EVALUATION OF ANTI-DEPRESSANT ACTIVITY OF ETHANOLIC EXTRACT OF GLIRICIDIA SEPIUM LEAVES IN MICE

Fathimath Raihana*

Abstract

Medicinal plants serves as vital source of developing effective therapy to prevent a variety of CNS problems. Depression is prevalent psychiatric disorder which affects most of the population in this decade. The active components like flavonoids, alkaloids, saponins, amines, carbohydrates, terpenes and terpenoids are found to possess antidepressant activity. Gliricidia sepium is one of the important plants in the medicinal field because it serves as a reservoir for potent bioactive compounds and known for numerous activities. The phytochemical constituents present in them helps to assume that this plant may have anti-depressant action. So the current study is focusing on evaluation of antidepressant activity of Gliricidia sepium leaves belonging to the family fabaceae, by using the animal mice.

Keywords: Gliricidia sepium, Fabaceae, Phytochemical constituent, Anti-depressant.