Volume : VIII, Issue : V, May - 2019
Phytochemical analysis of some selected vegetables of Chitrakoot reagion
Ruchika Sharma, Namrata Dwivedi, Geeta Patel, Poonam Pandey, I. P Tripathi
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Phytochemicals are bioactive compounds obtained from the plants and are widely applied in the traditional herbal medicine. These herbal medicines are used by the local people to cure the various diseases which include the major diseases such as Diabetes Mellitus, Cancer, HIV etc. In this study the phytochemical screening of available parts (mainly leaves and fruit) of twelve medicinal plants of four different families found in Chitrakoot region. Test plants were extracted with methanol and water by cold and hot extraction methods and screened for the presence of carbohydrates, alkaloids, flavonoids, proteins, rasin, anthocynin and betacynin, saponin, steroids, starch, tannins, starch, glycosides, phenol, phlobatannins and terpenoids. We found that the selected plants are good source of various phytochemicals. This study revealed the presence of various biologically active secondary metabolites which could be helpful in the prevention of chronic diseases
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PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF SOME SELECTED VEGETABLES OF CHITRAKOOT REAGION, Ruchika Sharma, Namrata Dwivedi, Geeta Patel, Poonam Pandey, I.P Tripathi PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-5 | May-2019
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PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF SOME SELECTED VEGETABLES OF CHITRAKOOT REAGION, Ruchika Sharma, Namrata Dwivedi, Geeta Patel, Poonam Pandey, I.P Tripathi PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-5 | May-2019