Abstract

PHYTOCHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF PHYSALIS ANGULATA LINN BERRIES

*Dr. B. Parimaladevi, R.Muthulakshmi, Thangamaselvan P., Gayathri V., Rithick Roshan M., Mouliya M. and Shoba S.

Abstract

Herbs include crude plant material such as leaves, flowers, fruit, seed, stems, wood, bark, roots and rhizomes or other plant parts, which may be entire, fragmented or powdered.[1] Herbal medicine is still the mainstay of about 75 - 80% of the world population, mainly in the developing countries, for primary health care. Herbs contain a variety of chemical compounds that act upon the body and are used to prevent or treat disease or promote health and well-being. Herbal drugs have increasingly been used worldwide during the last few decades as evidenced by rapidly growing global and national markets of herbals and its preparations.[2-5] Based on the therapeutic values of herbs, we attempted for the herbal extract from Physalis to analyte Phytochemicals compound to demonstrate various therapeutic and pharmacological activities.[6]

Keywords: Medicinal plants; Physalis angulata, Extraction, Phytochemical screening: Antiulcer, Anti-Inflammatory.