Author(s):

M Arul and N Sami Veerappa

Abstract: Plants been used in traditional medicine for several thousand years. India is a home to a variety of traditional medicine systems that relay to a very large extent on native plant species for their raw drug materials. There are many reports on the use of plants in the traditional healing by either tribal people or indigenous communities of India. Now there is a need to look back owards the traditional medicine which can serve as novel therapeutics. Toddalia asiatica, has been in folklore use in India and China from 18^th century. Since, this plant possess many medicinal properties, the present study was designed to evaluate the phytochemicals of stem extract of Toddalia asiatica L. The phytochemicals of stem extract of Toddalia asiatica L. was analysed qualitatively and the presence of some phytochemicals are confirmed by HPLC analysis. The results of the above study conclusively validate the phytochemical treasures indulged in Toddalia asiatica.

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