Abstract

PHARMACOGNOSTIC AND PHYTOCHEMICAL EVALUATION OF VITIS VITIGENIA ROOTS

Mariyan R. Patel*, Jinal D. Solanki and Hiteksha S. Panchal

ABSTRACT

Vitis vitigenia (Vitaceae) is native to India. This tree species has been of interest to researchers because it is a medicinal plant employed in the Indian indigenous system of medicine. Pharmacognostic standardization, physicochemical evaluation of the Roots of Vitis vitigenia was carried out to determine its macro-and microscopical characters and also some insoluble ash and sulphated ash values, alcohol- and water-soluble extractive values were determined for phytochemical evaluations. Preliminary phytochemical screening was also done to detect different phytoconstituents. Microscopically, root showed The Proximate analysis of powder was also carried out in which extractive value, ash value, foreign matter, PH, loss on drying were determined and also successive solvent extraction was carried out using soxhlet extractor in which ethanol was used. Aqueous extract was also carried out by maceration method. The total tannins, total flavonoid content was also determined, the total phenolic content was also determined using Folin Ciocalteu reagent. Preliminary phytochemical screening of various successive extracts of root was done qualitatively which revealed the presence of triterpenoids, saponins, tannins, and flavonoids.

Keywords: Vitis vitigenia, macroscopy, microscopy, phytoconstituents, Rf (retention factors).