Screening Of Calotropis Procera Linn. For Its Phytochemicals
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Herbal plants are essential for our daily lives and health and has been used in traditional medicines for a long time. The accessibility and fewer negative effects of herbal plants, has attributed to the popularity of the herbal plants. Calotropis procera Linn. is a well-known plant for its use in traditional medicine because of its many healing qualities that can treat a wide range of illnesses. In the present investigation, the leaves of C. procera was extracted in various solvents like Petroleum ether, chloroform and ethanol using successive solvent methods and distilled water was used as the control. These extracts were profiled for various phytochemicals. Numerous phytochemicals were identified in the different extracts of C.procera leaves at various intensities which included fatty acids, flavonoids, terpenoids, phenols, alkaloids, steroids, saponins, glycosides and terpenes. The presence of these phytochemicals confers a variety of therapeutic benefits in this plant like anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, anticancer, antioxidant and antitumor properties, making it able to cure a variety of diseases and disorders, including asthma, colds, epilepsy, fever, indigestion, leprosy, piles, and skin diseases. Moreover, the plant holds much undiscovered medicinal values which needs to be brought out so that lead compounds from this plant can be used to design new drugs for combating emerging diseases in the future.
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