EVALUATION OF PHYTOCHEMICAL CONSTITUENT IN CONVENTIONAL AND NON CONVENTIONAL SPECIES OF CURCUMA
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Pharmacy (IRJP) - Year 2012, Vol 3, Issue 8
Abstract
Plants and plant based medicaments are the basis of many of the modern pharmaceutical we use today for our various aliment. Plant show medicinal properties as it contain phytochemical constituent. Phytochemical constituent are non nutritive plant chemical that have disease preventive properties .This paper reports an investigation of phytochemical constituent present in the Methanolic crude rhizome extract of conventional and non conventional Curcuma species i.e Curcuma caecia , Curcuma amada and Cucrcuma longa .The phytochemical analysis was performed to detect the presence of Carbohydrates ,Starch, Amino acid, Steroid, Tannin ,Alkaloid , Flavanoid ,Glycoside and Saponin . Presence of phytochemical constituent shows the protective and disease preventive properties of plants.
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Jyoti Saxena , Rajeshwari Sahu
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