PHYTOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION IN COMMELINEA BENGALENSIS & CYANOTIS CRISTATA

Abstract

Humans are directly or indirectly approach products of medicinal or common weed plants. Commelina benghalensis and Cyanotis cristata both are herbaceous weeds belongs to family Commelinaceae which distributed over all ranges of India. From the literature available it was learnt that there were no sub stantial work was carried out yet for its chemical constituents. Hence efforts were made to investigate the secondary metabolites present in leaves of both species. The air dried leaf powder of both studied species are extracted successively with universal solvent (Distilled water) and alcohol. Preliminary phytochemical investigation of above extract reveled that presence of Saponins, Tannins, Carbohydrates, Glycosides, Flavonids, Alkaloids, and Terpenoids. The present study provides preliminary details to characterize some pharmacognostical parameters of these of Commelinaceae Members.