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VOL. 6, ISSUE 6 (2021)
Phytochemical screening and characterization of Acorus calamus for its antimicrobial and antioxidant activity
Authors
Nikita Pathak, Sakshi Yadav
Abstract
Ayurveda is one of the traditional medicinal systems of Indian culture. The philosophy behind Ayurveda is preventing unnecessary suffering and living a long healthy life. Ayurveda involves the use of natural elements to eliminate the root cause of a disease by restoring balance and at the same time creating a healthy life-style to prevent the recurrence of imbalance. Herbal medicines have existed world-wide with long recorded history. World Health Organization (WHO) have estimated that 80% of the world’s inhabitants still rely on traditional medicines for their health care. India is well-known to be one of the major biodiversity centre with about 45,000 plant species, including 15,000 medicinal plants. The concept of polyherbalism is to achieve greater therapeutic efficacy. The active phytochemical constituents of individual plants are insufficient to achieve the desirable therapeutic effects. When combining this research mainly focuses on the importance of polyherbalism and its clinical significance. For this study medicinal plant Acoruscalamushave been taken and extracted for their study of anti-bacterial and anti- oxidant activity. The phytochemical compounds were screened by qualitative analysis method and the detected phytochemicals are tannins, saponins, alkaloids, phenols, terpenoids, flavonoids. The different solvent ssuch as methanol, petroleum ether, chloroform and aqueous were used to extract the bioactive compounds from various parts of the selected medicinal plant. The anti- bacterial activity were demonstrated against the bacterial strains like Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli by disc-diffusion method. The anti-oxidant activity was evaluated by DPPH radical scavenging method.
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Pages:627-629
How to cite this article:
Nikita Pathak, Sakshi Yadav "Phytochemical screening and characterization of <em>Acorus calamus</em> for its antimicrobial and antioxidant activity ". International Journal of Botany Studies, Vol 6, Issue 6, 2021, Pages 627-629
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