Pharmacognostic and Phytochemical Evaluation of Hepatoprotective Plants

Since the beginning of time, humans have used plants as a source of medicinal substances. Traditional medicinal plants are used in many indigenous medical systems to treat a variety of disorders in both humans and animals, and they are essential for healing due to presence of bioactive compounds such as primary and secondary metabolites. These Medicinal Plants have been used for antifungal, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and hepatoprotective activities. The current manuscript gives Pharmacognostic, physicochemical & Phytochemical examination carried out on the crude drugs of some medicinal plants i.e. RCL, MOL, AIL, TCLS, CCL. The phytoconstituents like; Flavonoids, alkaloids, tannins, phenols, steroids, terpenoids, carbohydrates, glycosides, and proteins compounds were identified by phytochemical testing which will be helpful to carry out the investigation on liver diseases. Physicochemical parameters including moisture content (7.90, 7.42, 9.68, 5.93 and 17.8 % w/w), ash values (13,11.5, 11.5, 9 and 12.3 % w/w), extractive values such as ether soluble extractive value (11.2, 4.8, 14.6, 4, and 8% w/w), alcohol soluble extractive value (16, 9.6, 10.4, 5.6 and 6.4 % w/w) and water soluble extractive value (25.6, 28, 25.6, 30.4 and 24.8 % w/w) of powdered drug samples of above mentioned plants have been determined. These factors are helpful to differentiate between powdered materials. The current study is an effort to improve the data in terms of standardization by developing a few diagnostic indices for the identification of the plant, creation of a monograph and conducting further research on Ayurveda approach to medicine.