Phytochemical Screening And Isolation Of Bioactive Compounds Of Plant Extracts On Diarrheal Activity

Abstract

Natural products from medicinal plants, either as pure compounds or as standardized extracts, provide unlimited opportunities for new drug leads because of the unmatched availability of chemical diversity. Due to an increasing demand for chemical diversity in screening programs, seeking therapeutic drugs from natural products, interest particularly in edible plants has grown throughout the world. Botanicals and herbal preparations for medicinal usage contain various types of bioactive compounds. As a benchmark antioxidant, ascorbic acid was used to assess the radical-scavenging abilities of leaf extracts from commonly used medicinal herbs. The study employed the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical to evaluate the scavenging activity. The primary objectives of this study were to determine phenolic content, reduction power in various leaf extracts, and assess their antioxidant properties using the DPPH and ABTS assays.