Indian Journal of Scientific Research
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue: 1

Phytochemicals from leaves of Mentha spicata and Artemisia pallens

Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology, Bhilai Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Hospital sector, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India

Online published on 6 September, 2019.

Abstract

Plants have been used for medicinal purpose. The present study evaluates with alcoholic extract of different plnts leaves namely Mint (Mintha spicata) amd Davana (Artemisia pallens) were prepared separately. The crude extract of the leaves of the above plnt were taken for the study. Phytochemical screening of various solvent extract of Minta and Davana was carried out by standard method for performing qualitative phytochemical analysis for studying the presence of bioactive compounds like tannin, flavonoids, terpenoids, saponin, carbohydrates, alkaloids, cardiac glycoside, proteins and phenol. It was found that alkaloids, phenol, glycoside, flavonoids, and protein were present in leaves of Mint and Davana.

Keywords

Artemisia pallens Mentha spicata, phytochemical analysis