COMPARATIVE ANDPHYTOCHEMICALANALYSIS OF METHANOLIC EXTRACT OFSEVENANTI-MALARIA PLANTS FROM SOUTHEASTERNNIGERIA
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Medical plants possess an important source of pharmacological effects that acts as new anti
infections, antioxidant and anti-cancer agents. The most important bioactive constituents of
plants are steroids, terpenoids, flavonoids, alkaloids, tannins, which serve as valuable starting
material for drug development. By concerning all these studies, we have traced out the
presence of phytochemical in the seven different plants studied, The seven plants (Neem:
Azadirachta indica, Lemmon grass: Cymbopogon citratus, Grape: Citrus paradisi, Bitter leaf:
Vernonia amyygdalina, Guava: Psidium guajava, Lime: Citrus aurantifolia and Utazi:
Gongronema latifolium) Ipomoea mauritiana leave. The qualitative phytochemical analysis
showed the presence of alkaloids, flavonoids, steroids, tannins, phenols by changing the colour
of medium when treated with respective reagents while the quantitative analysis showed that
2 g of Azadirachta indica and Vernonia amyygdalina contained 38% of Alkaloid, 12%% of
Flavonoid, 19%% of Saponin, 38.9 of Terpenoids, 20% of Tannin, 5% Phenol and 9% of
steroids. The result shows that Azadirachta indica and Vernonia amyygdalina are essential for
the treatment of malaria as a result of presence of Terpenoid and alkaloid.
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