Antioxidant properties of ethno medicinal plants of Kandhamal district Odisha

Abstract

In the last few years has been an exponential growth in the field of herbal newlinemedicine and these drugs gaining popularity both in developing and developed newlinecountries because of their natural origin and less side effects. Many traditional newlinemedicines in use are derived from medicinal plants, minerals and organic matter. The newlineworld Health Organization (WHO) has listed 21,000 plants which are used for newlinemedicinal purposes around the world. Among them 2500 species are found in India, out newlineof which 150 species are used commercially on a fairly large scale. India is the largest newlineproducer of medicinal herbs and is called as botanical garden of the world.The aim of newlinethe present study to document the ethnomedicinal uses, analysis the phytochemical newlinescreening, estimate the total phenolic and flavonoid contents and antioxidant properties newlineof 20 traditionally used medicinal plants. newlineEthnomedicinal plant wealth of Kandhamal district is one of the richest in newlineOdisha state of India. So, the ethnobotanical survey was conducted to collect newlineinformation about the medicinal plants used by different tribes in Kandhamal district of newlineOdisha. Information presented here was gathered from various tribes of the district newlineusing an integrated approach of botanical collections and interview schedules. A total of newline25 informants were interviewed and 20 ethnomedicinal plants species distributed in 19 families have been documented. Collected information depicts that the tribal people of newlineKandhamal district largely depend on medicinal plants to meet their primary health care newlineneeds. The plant parts were collected from the five different villages of Phulbani area newlineand these villages are Khoumunda, Gudari, Khajuripoda, Datimendi and Maliko sahi. The secondary metabolites produced by these medicinal plants are reported to newlinehave therapeutic values. The secondary metabolites like phenol, tannin, saponin, newlineCoumarin, anthocyanin, terpenoids, Leucoanthocyanin, alkaloids, protein, glycosides newlineand reducing sugar have been analyzed qualitatively in these species. newline