Phytochemical evaluation of a medicinal plant alphonsea sclerocarpa, and its antibacterial, and antioxidant activity

Research Article
Prerana Pramod Dange., Ramachandra Y. L., Pawar Sagar Namdeo and Ashwini.
Subject: 
Biotechnology
KeyWords: 
Alphonsea sclerocarpa, Phytochemicals, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinsonism arthritis, atherosclerosis.
Abstract: 

Plants can be considered as the natural gift to humans with diverse abilities and capabilities incombating and curing diseases apart from being the main source of basic needs. For millennia, man started using various parts of plants such as roots, stems, bark, leaves, flowers, and fruits to curb diseases associated with nutritional defects or bacterial, fungal, and viral infections. The traditional uses of plants and natural preparations derived from them over the centuries have paved the way for investigations of these materials as sustainable medicinal agents.Phytochemicals can be classified into several major groups based on their chemical structure, function, or by the signaling pathway through which they act (1).Based on chemical structure, phytochemicals are classified as Alkaloids, glycosides, Flavonoids, Terpenoids, Tannins, Saponins, Steroids, etc.Various plants have been found beneficial in mitigating various diseases such as arthritis, atherosclerosis, aging, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinsonism, and other inflammatory disorders. The present research evaluates to screen for preliminary phytochemicals of secondary metabolites in Alphon seasclerocarpa leaf extracts.To evaluate the antimicrobial activity using microorganisms such as S. aureus, E. coli, S. typhi, and B. subtilis, and the antioxidant activity using the DPPH method of radical scavenging activity of the leaves extract.