PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING OF HALOPHYTIC PLANT SUAEDA NUDIFLORA (WILLD.)

Abstract

The world is blessed with a great variety of natural vegetation, some of which are used as traditional medicine to cure various sicknesses and diseases. Phytochemicals are naturally occuring, biologically active chemical compounds in plants. Phytochemicals like carotenoids, flavanoids and polyphenols, they posses antioxidant activity and protect our cells against oxidative damage and reduce the risk of developing certain types of cancer. The majority of the active compounds are phenolic, vitamin C, vitamin E, tannins and carotenes. Coastal medicinal plants also engage in recreation to treat diabetes, particularly where most people have limited resources and do not have access to modern treatment. Halophytes are salt tolerant plant. Halophyte species which grow in a wide variety of saline habitats, from coastal sand dunes, salt marshes and mudflat to inland deserts, salt flats and steppes. Salt tolerance plants have more phytochemical and more antioxidant effect indicated that lot of literature. So in this way in my present study I have done phytochemical screening or preliminary phytochemical screening of halophyte Suaeda nudiflora.