Abstract

PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF ETHANOLIC EXTRACT OF LEAVES OF STRECULIA FOETIDA

Ezhilarasan P.*, Nishodha K., Nithishkumarr, Prabhakaran M., Praveen Kumar P., Preethi C. and Vignesh V.

ABSTRACT

In fact, all plant components are screened for phytoconstituents[1-3] that may be evident; further separation, purification and identification of the plant may be attributable to the presence of a phytoconstituents of interest.[4,5] The bioactive compounds extracted from the plants were used in the herbal or traditional medicine.[6] Traditional medicine is safe, clinically effective and less expensive The consumption of medicinal plants as therapeutic agents was growing worldwide because of the readily available and low cost with minimum toxic side effects than modern synthetic drugs.[7] Sterculia foetida belongs to Sterculiaceae which is also called as java olive, bartered poon tree, hazel Sterculia, poon tree, skunk tree, samrong in Thai. In India, it is known as Jangli badam (Hindi, Bengali), adavi badam (Telugu). It is a large tree with 40m height and 3m trunk diameter. The flowers are the green or purple color with foul smell found as panicles and this species is dioecious, hermaphroditic and lack petals but have a 5 lobed calyx that appears as petals. Each fruit generally contains 10-15 black ellipsoid seeds. Sterculia foetida seed has starchy cotyledons and is straight with a small radical. Sterculia foetida seed oil may help combat belly fat and insulin resistance by resensitizing receptors.[8]

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