PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSES AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF AERVA JAVANICA (BURM. F.) JUSS. Ex SCHULT

Abstract

This paper tuckels the phytochemical analysis of the Aerva javanica which has revealed that the plant contains various chemicals as flavonoids, tannins, alkaloids, saponins and phenols. This study was carried out to evaluate the amount of flavonoids and phenols stored inside of the pedicel and petals using the following solvents chloroform, ethyl acetate and n-butanol which resulted in six extracts. Highest phenolic content (100.82±1.47 mg GAE /g extract) for ethyl acetate stems extracts, while highest flavonoid content (101.46±0.09 mg QE /g extract) for chloroform flowers extracts. The antioxidant activity was investigated using the DPPH profound rummaging activity and phosphomolybdenum tests. It also includes how the combination of both the total phenolic contents and total flavonoids achieved the major results. Chloroform petals extracts had the highest chemical group scavenging activity byIC50 of 0.1035±0.03mg/ml. In addition, the phosphomolybdenum has achieved the highest result (67.72 mM) for n-butanol compared to the other solvents. The chemicals extracted from the Aerva javanica (Burm. f.) portray a postive antioxidant activity