Phytochemical screening of Soymida febrifuga Roxb. (Meliaceae) root bark

Abstract

Soymida ferifuga commonly known as mamsarhohini of family meliaceae is a reputed folk medicinal plant. Its root bark extensively used in treating leucorrhoea, menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea. For the first time root bark was subjected investigate its phytochemical investigations.The present research work is aimed to evaluate the plant phytochemicaly by carrying out various physicochemical parameters like LOD, ash value, extractive value, phytochemical screening including HPTLC fingerprint. The physicochemical parameter shows that all the values are within the quality range.  Phytochemical screening shows presence of alkaloid, tannins, glycosides etc chemical constituents. HPTLC fingerprint shows the separation of maximum number of chemical moieties, based upon the findings it can be concluded that the test parameters can be used as identification tool for this plant and further research work can be done based upon these parameters.