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Phytochemical Characterization and Antioxidative Property of Ocimum canum Sims

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  • R Kuralarasi

    (Research scholar, Ayya Nadar Janaki Akmal College, India)

  • S Revathilakshmi

    (Department of Botany, Ayya Nadar Janaki Akmal College, India)

Abstract

Medicinal plants are the richest bio-resource of drugs for traditional systems of medicine, modern medicine, nutraceuticals, food supplements, folk medicines, pharmaceutical intermediates and chemical entities for synthetic drugs. In the present study aimed to find out the phytochemicals present in the various solvent leaf extracts of Ocimum canum Sims and all the fractions of O. canum demonstrated H-donor activity. The highest DPPH radical scavenging activity was detected in chloroform fraction (IC50 0.145mg/ml), followed by ethyl acetate, pet-ether and residual fractions (IC50 0.164, 0.29 and 0.6mg/ml respectively). The residual fraction of O. canum showed the highest reducing ability (absorbance 0.620) than all the other fractions tested. The scavenging activity of the pet-ether fraction (IC50 0.141mg/ml) was higher than that of quercetin (0.308mg/ml). The residual, chloroform and ethyl acetate fractions also showed significant scavenging activities (IC50 of RF, CF and EAF were 0.125, 0.186 and 0.232mg/ml respectively) when compared to the standard.

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  • R Kuralarasi & S Revathilakshmi, 2019. "Phytochemical Characterization and Antioxidative Property of Ocimum canum Sims," Global Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 7(3), pages 77-82, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:jgjpps:v:7:y:2019:i:3:p:77-82
    DOI: 10.19080/GJPPS.2019.07.555712
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