Abstract

PHARMACOGNOSTICAL AND PHYTOCHEMICAL STUDY ON THE LEAVES OF LANNEA COROMANDELICA (HOUTT.) MERR.

Standardization of a crude drug is an important aspect in discussion today. The standardization parameters of any crude drug will be resolved primarily by estimating the microscopical features, chemical constituents and physicochemical characters. It was found interesting Lannea coromandelica, a widely distributed plant in India and in Africa, leaves having claimed for many traditional uses and medicinal properties like aphrodisiac, ailment for tooth aches; ulcers etc. many activities have been investigated like wound healing activity, anti inflammatory activity, hypotensive activity etc. In the present work the microscopical, phytochemical and physicochemical evaluation of the leaf powder of the plant has been done and the reports showed all the distinctive microscopic features of the plant and physico chemical constants like ash values, loss on drying, extractive values, flourescent analysis showed all the values are under limits. The Priliminary phytochemical screening, TLC and Total phenolic content revealed the presence of Poly phenols in the methanolic extract of the leaf and 7.43 and 11.864 Gallic Acid Equivalents and Tannic Acid Equivlaents were present respectively