Research Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry
  • Year: 2025
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 2

Epiphyllum oxypetalum: Unveiling the medicinal potential of the queen of the night

1Department of Pharmacognosy, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India

2Ashokrao Mane College of Pharmacy, Peth - Vadgaon

*Corresponding Author E-mail: rutujakamble681@gmail.com

Online published on 4 July, 2025.

Abstract

Epiphyllum oxypetalum is a wide remedial plant that has a put to the cactus circle of relatives. it's continuously called the Ruler of the night time, night time Growing Cereus, or woman of the night due to its astonishing closeness to the Lotus and the reality that, like most noteworthy white leafage, it grows at night. in extension to the doubtlessly unmistakable and bitty evaluation, the physicochemical and phytochemical places of the powdered takes off had been reviewed. The smoothly going on bioactive mixes interior the takes off have been surveyed the operation of a grouping of dissolvable extricates. Proteins, carbohydrates, sterols, flavonoids, alkaloids, phenols, tannins, and saponins were each show, in line with the bits of knowledge. Physicochemical evaluation, which secured mishap on drying, searing flotsam and jetsam values, water dissolvability, destructive insolubility, and pH, made a contrast in identity and awesome control. anti-most cancers, antioxidant, antibacterial, and against urolithiasis conduct are among its multitudinous pharmacological characteristics.

Keywords

Epiphyllum oxypetalum, Phytochemicals, Pharmacological Characters, Evaluation, Physiochemical