Abstract
Many plants of the family of Araceae possess significant benefit as medicinal plants. Anthurium hookerii is herbaceous genus of the family of Araceae. A. hookerii leaves were extracted with five dissimilarity solvents (methanolic, water, ethyl acetate, n-hexane, and dichloromethane). The extracts were evaluated for their phytochemical, total phenolic contents, and antibacterial potential. The presences of tannins and saponins were found in all crude extracts. The steroid was only found in dichloromethane extract, whereas flavonoid was obtained in methanol and water extracts. Besides; methanol, ethyl acetate, water, and n-hexane extracts showed triterpenoid contents. Alkaloid presences in ethyl acetate, methanolic, dichloromethane, and water extracts. The total phenol content was examined by Follin-Ciocalteu assay, which varied from 9.52-76.56 mg/g GAE. The highest total phenolic was found in methanol extract. Antioxidant activity was calculated based on diphenyl picryl hydrazyl radical scavenging ability that showed the scavenging activity with range 7.24-66.11%, which the methanoilic extract have the excellent antioxidant potential (IC50 232.90 µg/ml). Antibacterial activity of leaves extracts of A. hookerii was screened based on disc diffusion method. Water extract showed the wide spectrum antibacterial potential. Klebsiella sp., Bacillus subtilis, Pripioni agnes, and Strepticoccus mutans with maximum diameter of inhibition zone 10.30, 14.20, 9.60, and 15.10 mm, respectively.
Highlights
Herbal medicines have been exploited in the enlargement of pharmaceutical yield, primary concern in worldwide health care (Graham et al 2000)
The steroid was only found in dichloromethane extract, whereas flavonoid was obtained in methanol and water extracts
Antioxidant activity was calculated based on diphenyl picryl hydrazyl radical scavenging ability that showed the scavenging activity with range 7.24-66.11%, which the methanol extract has the excellent antioxidant potential (IC50 232.90 μg/ml)
Summary
Herbal medicines have been exploited in the enlargement of pharmaceutical yield, primary concern in worldwide health care (Graham et al 2000). The adventages of herbal medicine is prospective of bioactivity. Those are generally collected as secondary metabolism in all plant tissues their concentration range allow to the plant part, occasion, atmospheric condition, and appropriate growth phase (Maji et al 2010). Raw extracts from plant have an essential antioxidants and bioactive compounds. Another benefit of several medicinal plants is an antibacterial agent. Those are proven that have ability to inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria. According to Geyid et al (2005), many infectious diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, lung disease and cure skin, can be treated by medicinal plants
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