Abstract

STANDARDIZATION AND SOLVENT COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ABUTILON HIRTUM L.

Gokulakrishnan S.*, Vaishnavi G. and K. B. Ilango

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Abstract

Background: Medicinal plants are gaining much interest became their use in ethno medicine treating common disease such as cold, fever& other claims. The study on medicinal plants started with extraction procedure that plays a clinical role to the extraction outcomes. Abutilon hirtum L ( family: Malvaceae), known as Florida keys mallow plant is traditionally used as pain of kidney gravel, to treat diarrhoea, cough and toothache, to cure bladder inflammation, wounds and ulcers and as an antipyretic, demulcent, diuretic and mouth wash. Aim and objective: Solvents are important for extracting potential compounds from natural sources frequency of solvent used for extraction is potrayed and the results are discussed in the article. This research aim to describe and compare the best solvent used for extraction of Abutilon hirtum L, Standardize and evaluate of Abutilon hirtum L, for both quantitative and qualitatively on the basis of organoleptic characters, physical characters and phytochemical screening. Method: The Abutilon hirtum L extract was prepared by using maceration and followed by soxhlet extraction process. Different type of solvents (Ethanol, methanol, acetone, chloroform), were used for extraction. Identified which solvent is best for extraction of Abutilon hirtum L and organoleptical characters, physiochemical characters, phytochemical screening was done. Conclusion: At the end of this research we will find out the organoleptical properties, physiochemical properties, phytochemical constituents of Abutilon hirtum L. This research may be helpful in isolation of specific phytoconstituents and its related medicinal activity studies.

Keywords: Abutilon hirtum L, Maceration, Extraction, Solvents, Phytoconstituent.