Abstract

PHYTOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION AND TAXONOMIC EVALUATION OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS

Sanghamitra Sanyal*

Abstract

The present study has been designed with the objective of investigating the morphological characters of ten local medicinal plants for the preparation of artificial key and phytochemical analysis including determination of the secondary metabolites. The powdered plant was successively extracted with methanol solvent. Phytochemical analysis revealed the presence or absence of secondary metabolites like flavonoids, alkaloids, cardiac glycosides, steroids, phenols, tannins, saponin, phlobatannin, protein and reducing sugar having several therapeutic purposes. The results may justify the popular uses of these plants as therapeutic drugs.

Keywords: Taxa, taxonomy, phytochemistry, extracts, carminative, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, key.