STUDIES ON PHYTOCHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OF SYZYGIUM AROMATICUM L.
S. Gowri* and S. Beatrice Florence Febronia*
Abstract
Plants are the source of inspiration for novel compounds. When a plant
is preferred as „medicinal‟ it is implied that the plant contains chemical
substances which can be used for therapeutic purpose or it is a
precursor for synthesis of useful drugs. The flower buds of clove have
many medicinal properties like antiviral, antimicrobial, hypertensive
aphrodisiac, carminative and anesthetic. In the present study, the
proximate content, qualitative, quantitative, phytochemicals and
antioxidant properties of S. aromaticum were analyzed by using
standard methods. This investigation reveals that the phytochemicals
such as alkaloids, saponins, flavonoids, tannins, terpenoids and
anthroquinone were identified. Hence, the flower buds of
S. aromaticum exhibit more bioactivities such as antibacterial, Antifungal and
antioxidant activities were performed effectively.
Keywords: Syzygium aromaticum, therapeutic, phytochemicals, antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant.
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