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EXTRACTION OF PHYTOCONSTITUENTS AND EVALUATION OF IN VITRO ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF AERIAL PARTS OF SARCOSTIGMA KLEINII WIGHT & ARN

Visal C. S*, Dr. Prasobh G.R., Dr. Sandhya S.M, Nishad V. M, Anu S.

According to World Health Organization, 80% of the people living in the rural areas depend on medicinal plants as primary health care system. These practices are solely based on the knowledge of traditional use of medicinal plants; but traditional use of medicinal plants is continuously decreasing with the easy availability of the modern medicines and unavailability of information of local flora. Plants are important sources of medicines and presently about 25% of pharmaceutical prescriptions in the United States contain at least one plant-derived ingredient. In the last century, roughly 121 pharmaceutical products were formulated based on the traditional knowledge obtained from various sources.Here we will be extracting phytoconstituents from aerial parts of Sarcostigma Kleinii and its phytochemical screening will be performed and its antioxidant activity is also evaluated Keywords: Sarcostigma Kleinii , Antioxidant activity.

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