World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

A STUDY ON PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF SOME AROMATIC MEDICINAL FLORA

Muskan Borkar*, Aaditi Thakare, Surekha Gabhane, Dr. Padmavathi Rao and Dr. S. W. Dafare

ABSTRACT

Aromatic Medicinal plants have been very popular from time immemorial since many more years in the Indian culinary, having antimicrobial and insect repellent properties as well. All these plants were biologically active and were used as traditional medicine and their essential oil also being used as perfumery ingredients and aroma enhancers in food products. In the present investigation, five aromatic medicinal plants including Cymbopogon, Lantana, Mentha, Murraya, Ocimum which are available in J.M. Patel College Botanical Garden were used. The main objectives of this research was to determine some bioactive phytochemicals like alkaloids, steroids, phenols, terpenoids, flavonoids, seponins, tannins, glycosides and essential oils in dried leaves of five species by following Soxhlet extraction method. Keeping in view their importance, this work was carried out to investigate the qualitative determination of different types of secondary metabolites and their role in the aroma of these aromatic plants was also discussed in the present study.

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