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Preliminary Phytochemical Screening of Shoot Extract of Cissus Guadrangularis (L.) from Chhattisgarh

Author(s):

Sonal Khandelwal , Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh; Prof. Vijaya Koche, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh

Keywords:

Preliminary Phytochemical Screening, Shoot Extract of Cissus Quadrangularis

Abstract

Cissus quadrangularis is a very important medicinal plant, found in tropical countries including India. The plant is used for the treatment of number of diseases specifically for healing up of fractured bone that is why known as “Hadjod”. The plant is rich in phytosterol content which is one of the major constituent and mainly responsible for healing up of wounded tissues. In the present study hadjod collected from five districts of Chhattisgarh, (Ambikapur, Korba, Raipur, Dhamtari and Jagdalpur) were compared for their phytosterol contents. Presence of stigma sterol and β sitosterol in ethanol extract of Cissus quadrangularis were confirmed by TLC. Quantitative analysis of the samples has been done spectrophotometrically. Both of the sterol content was found to be higher in the samples of district Korba.

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Paper ID: IJSRDV5I60280
Published in: Volume : 5, Issue : 6
Publication Date: 01/09/2017
Page(s): 897-899

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