Plants produce wide ranges of secondary metabolites, making them a great source of various types of medicines. A continuous and widespread use of medicinal plants throughout the world has enhanced the concern over their safety, efficacy and quality of natural products. Thus a proper knowledge of the phytochemical constituents of the plants is important, because this information will be desirable for synthesis of new pharmaceutical products. The main objective of current investigation was to study the qualitative preliminary analysis of Amaranthus tricolor. Discovery of active compounds and their role in curing diseases from this plant leads its importance. For finding several other compounds the investigation of its qualitative phytochemical analysis of leaves and is very important. Five different solvents viz; water, ethanol, methanol, chloroform and acetone were used to obtain extracts of leaves. These extracts were used for qualitative preliminary phytochemical analysis using standard chemical tests. Data indicate the presence of alkaloids, amino-acid, phenolic compounds, flavonoids, saponines, and cardiac glycosides. Most of the phytochemical components were found in ethanolic extract due to high solubility of active compound of Amaranthus tricolor in this solvent as compared to other solvents. The presence of these secondary bioactive phytochemicals signifies the importance of these medicinal plants as an efficient source of therapeutic agent.
