Medicinal plants have been used in the treatment of various diseases as they possess potential pharmacological activities including antineoplastic, antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, analgesics, anti-diabetic, anti-hypertensive, antidiarrheal and other activities. Alkaloids, flavonoids, phenolics, tannins, saponins, steroids, glycosides, terpenes etc. are some of the important phytochemicals with diverse biological activities. The pharmacological activity of a plant can be predicted by the identification of the phytochemicals. Currently, phytochemicalscreening of ethanolic extract of Acalyphaindicastemwas determined by using standard procedures.HPLC analytical technique is also used for the detection of various natural bioactive compounds. HPLC chromatogram gave different peaks of several compounds present in stem of plant extract.Thus, based on these analytical results, it was concluded that the ethanolic extract of Acalyphaindicastem have rich amount of phytochemical compounds that are significant source for the production of latest drugs for inhibition of various ailments.
Key words: Medicinal plants, Phytochemical screening,Acalyphaindica, HPLC
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